Word: formosae
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...international conference in Rio de Janeiro last week, the most impressive figure was a towering (6 ft. 3 in.), hard-muscled Chinese-59-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop Paul Yu-pin of Nanking. Equally impressive was the report he gave of his church's growth in Formosa: during the past ten years, the island's Catholic population has grown from 5,000 to more than 200,000; its priesthood from...
...main land, but many have joined the church since fleeing from the Reds. The old ways are gone, and they want something to cling to, says the archbishop. "For more and more of them that something is Catholicism. Almost all the professors, tradesmen, generals and politicians on Formosa have accepted Christ...
...archbishop had another piece of news for the conference. Next month he will travel to Formosa on assignment from Pope John XXIII-to re-establish in Taipei, and then to administer, the Catholic University of Fu-jen, formerly located in Peking. It will be the first time in more than ten years that the archbishop has been able to live under the Chinese flag...
...returned to China, was made an archbishop in 1946. Three years later, the Communists overran his diocese and he had to flee again. In exile in the U.S., the bishop spent his energies helping Chinese in the New World and raising funds for the refugees on Formosa...
With a contribution of $100,000 from the Pope, and the promise of $900,000 from Boston's Cardinal Richard Gushing, Archbishop Yu-pin hopes to make Formosa's University of Fu-jen one of the Far East's best schools. It will be as inter national as the church itself: Spanish Dominicans will teach medicine and nursing; French Lazarists will run the law school; Austrian Benedictines will teach agriculture; Chinese priests will teach literature; and U.S. members of the Congregation of the Divine Word will teach science and languages. The first few hundred students are expected...