From Guardian Unlimited:
China took a significant step towards improving its traditionally turbulent links with the Vatican today with the consecration of a new bishop of Beijing who is widely believed to have the formal support of the Pope.
Joseph Li Shan was installed to the influential role within China’s state-controlled Catholic church in a ceremony before hundreds of priests and nuns at the city’s 400-year-old Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, close to Tiananmen Square….[Full Text]
– Read China installs Pope-backed bishop via BBC
– Read also Quiet Signals Cleared New Beijing Bishop via NYT
[Image: The new Catholic bishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan, with followers, via Guardian Unlimited]
