Sixty-plus years after the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949, the Catholic Church in that country remains split between what is generally called an “underground” church, loyal to Rome, and a “patriotic” church that, though it may respect the pope as spiritual leader, submits to the institutional leadership of the regime and the Communist Par (...)
April 06, 2012
Books
Standing Fast
Church MilitantBishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist ShanghaiPaul P. MarianiHarvard University Press, $39.95, 310 pp.
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