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Newly-Ordained Shanghai Bishop Goes Missing

Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who quit the state-endorsed Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) over the weekend during a mass for his ordination as bishop of Shanghai, has reportedly been isolated at a seminary on the outskirts of the city. From The New York Times: Ma did not return for Mass on Sunday and was being confined at Shanghai’s Sheshan seminary without contact with others, acco