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DIED. James Walsh, 90, Roman Catholic bishop and former superior-general of the Maryknoll Fathers who, as a missionary, was imprisoned in China from 1958 to 1970 on charges of spying for the Vatican and the U.S.; in Ossining...
...crescendo occurs on a dizzying weekend when both Notre Dame and the family empire seem ready to come apart. The campus is erupting in a freakish religious spectacle. A Vatican visitor offers Father Kinsella the Archdiocese of Chicago-just as Maria asks for clarification of her role in Kinsella's life. Meanwhile, a federal prosecutor tries to build political capital out of an investigation of P.B.'s firm. Kennedy ties just the right knots in these tangled threads, while rounding out most of his cast with a sure hand. P.B., his best creation, is solid brick...
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...
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...
Tang, who has been in Rome for several months, plans to return home this week and quietly resume his duties. As the sole bishop in China accepted by both the Vatican and the Communist regime, Tang is clearly supposed to help improve relations between Rome and Peking and with China's "patriotic" bishops who reject papal authority. But the prospects seem dim. Peking quickly denounced the appointment as "an interference in China's internal affairs," and the patriotic bishops called it "illegal" and "intolerable...