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...bonus to buyers. A free Cadillac (value: $18,300) will go to the new owner of a three-bedroom ranch house in exclusive Bloomfield Hills that is priced at $204,000; a less commanding Chevette (value: $7,000) goes along with a three-bedroom colonial in a Canton Township suburb...
Bishop Dominic Tang was the pivotal man in the Vatican's hopes for a diplomatic bridgehead in Communist China. The government not only freed him from prison last year but recognized him as head of the Canton diocese. Tang later went to Rome, and Pope John Paul II named him permanent Archbishop of Canton. But Archbishop Tang had barely reached Hong Kong before Peking stripped him of office. China Daily complained that in receiving a papal appointment, Tang had violated the independence and dignity of the autonomous Chinese church. Now he is only a bishop-in-exile...
...eight Vatican-appointed bishops in mainland China, five are under house arrest and the fate of two others is unknown. That leaves Jesuit Dominic Tang, who in 1950 was appointed apostolic administrator, or temporary head, of the Canton diocese by Pope Pius XII and subsequently spent 22 years in a Communist prison. With church conditions improving dramatically in China, Tang was freed last year. Surprisingly, he also won the approval of the province's government to resume duties as administrator of his diocese...
Last week Pope John Paul II named Tang, 73, the country's only archbishop and formally assigned him to Canton. It was the Vatican's first permanent episcopal appointment in China since...
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