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The Diplomat
September 22, 2016
... accept the primacy of the Pope as the head of the church, disputing his “supreme administrative, legislative and judicial authority” and thus creating a “fundamental divergence of theology between the Patriotic Association and the Roman Catholic Church,” as described by the Cardinal Kung Foundation,Ãâà...
National Catholic Register
June 29, 2016
“This would be very demoralizing,” said Joseph Kung, president of the Cardinal Kung Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization that advocates for the underground Church in China. “People who I know in China in the underground are watching this and wondering if Bishop Ma is doing this of his ownÃâà...
ChristianToday
January 8, 2016
The death of a Catholic priest in China has still not been explained, two months after his body was found. At a memorial mass in Hong Kong on December 30, Cardinal Joseph Zen-Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hong Kong, questioned why Chinese authorities had not yet been able to ascertain theÃâà...
AsiaNews.it
November 16, 2015
Taiyuan (AsiaNews/CKF) – Father Pedro Wei Heping (pictured), a young underground Catholic priest, died on 6 November under suspicious circumstances. The clergyman's body was found floating in a river in the City of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The Cardinal Kung Foundation reported the news twoÃâà...
ucanews
September 9, 2015
With his hands tied behind his back, the bishop instead cried out, “Long live Christ the King; long live the pope,” according to the Cardinal Kung Foundation. Security personnel dragged the prelate away and he disappeared from public life until he was brought to trial in 1960. He was sentenced to life inÃâà...
New York Times
February 14, 2015
HONG KONG — For the better part of the last 60 years, Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang was imprisoned in Chinese jails and labor camps. For the last 14, he was held without charge in a secret location. His offense: refusing to renounce his loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church, which ordained him in 1947.
National Catholic Reporter
March 17, 2014
Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, 96, appointed as bishop of the underground Catholic church in Shanghai in 2000, died Sunday after a brief illness. (CNS/Cardinal Kung Foundation). Hong Kong — Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang of Shanghai, a prominent leader of China's underground CatholicÃâà...
