Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VATICAN CITY--Pope John Paul II rose from his hospital bed and celebrated Mass yesterday for the first time since he was wounded in an assassination attempt Wednesday. Doctors said that barring setbacks he will fully recover...
...United with Christ, priest and victim. I offer my sufferings for the church and the world," he said. The words, in Italian, were carried on Vatican Radio and were broadcast in his native Poland...
...nuncio to Nationalist China, or naming a Cardinal to succeed the late Paul Cardinal Yu Pin of Nanjing, who went to Taiwan in 1949 with the Nationalists. The Pope pointedly refers to that island's religious hierarchy not as bishops of China but as "the bishops of Taiwan." Vatican insiders believe he would drop diplomatic ties with Taiwan in return for restored relations with China...
...Chinese response to his Philippines speech was cold, and the "patriotic" Chinese bishops may decide to snub the Pontiff and reject the Vatican's overtures. Even if the status of existing bishops is worked out, the Communist rulers of China may not allow future bishops to be appointed by a Pope in far-off Rome...
...about the many Chinese Catholics who, like Bishop Tang, suffered intense persecution for decades because they remained loyal to the papacy and spurned the patriotic bishops. It is possible that most Chinese Catholics will continue to refuse to recognize the government-imposed religious hierarchy. Says one such Vatican loyalist in Shanghai: "Many of us grew up together and shared the sufferings of being Catholic. There isn't a single one who will go to a patriotic church...