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Gymnastics at Dawn. Along with Bishop Walsh, 13 Chinese priests were sentenced in Shanghai to terms from five to 25 years. And there was one life sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable...
From the beginning, Bishop Kung knew what was in store for Chinese Christians, and that compromise was useless. But he was not arrested until 1955. The charges: 1) opposing the Communist plan to set up a schismatic Catholicism free of Vatican control, 2) opposing land reform and the Chinese assault on Korea and 3) protecting "counter-revolutionaries...
...meeting in Paris with Russia's Khrushchev. In Japan, Tokyo's Sankei Jiji Shimbun key-noted: "Russia's shooting rockets into Britain's and America's sphere makes one dubious about notions that the cold war is melting." In Hong Kong, the Communist Ta Kung Pao blazoned a Red rocket across its front page and rejoiced: "The harder the U.S. tries to catch up, the farther it falls behind...
...began by ferreting out a few priests willing to collaborate as a step to higher rank, installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint...
...member of Mr. Marshall's family stated that the Kung tribe "thinks that two wives are a very good idea." There are not enough women to go around twice, so only about 10 per cent of the Kung tribesmen are polygamous...