Ignatius
Subtitle: The Life of Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Published: July 15, 2013
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 282
Description: Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (1901-2000), a simple Chinese-born Roman Catholic priest and first native-born Bishop of Shanghai, led his people to bear witness to Christ in the world. For his unflinching loyalty to the Pope, the Successor of Saint Peter, he endured more than thirty years imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese Communist government. Throughout, Bishop Kung stood squarely to defend his position that he was a loyal citizen of his homeland. He loved China: he was born in China, grew up in China, and ministered as a priest and bishop in China; and it was in China that he hoped to die and be buried. His life of humble witness was not as an enemy of his homeland, but as a Chinese citizen who was also a faithful Roman Catholic, in communion with the Pope. His is the same claim as that of other witnesses to Christ throughout the life of the Roman Catholic Church: one can be both a faithful Catholic and a faithful citizen. This is his story.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Youth and Early Education; title: Seminary Formation, Ordination, and Priestly Ministry; title: The First Native Son; title: Bishop of Shanghai; title: The Catholic Church and Communism; title: Chinese Communism and the Catholic Church; title: Bishop Kung's Plan: The First Pastoral Letter; title: The Catholic Students; title: Clarifying Positions; title: Bishop Kung's Battle Plan: His Second Pastoral Letter; title: The Persecution Intensifies; title: Catholics Do Battle; title: The Government Strikes and Catholics Resist; title: The Love-Country, Love-Church, Purge-Imperialist Struggle; title: Strike the Shephard, But the Shepherd Stood Firm; title: 1954 Marian Year: Our Lady of Lourdes; title: Catholics Persecuted; title: Papal Clarification; title: The Catholic Church Family; title: Arrests: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter; title: This Sacred Congregation; title: Public Trial and Condemnation of a Faithful Witness; title: Decades of Imprisonment; title: Bishop Kung's Appeal for Justice; title: Rome Remembers; title: Given to His Family: A Witness to the World from Stamford; title: Bishop Kung's remarks during his episcopal Consecration, October 7, 1949, as the first Bishop od Soochow
label: Appendix 1; title: Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, Encyclical on Athestic Communism, March 19, 1937
label: Appendix 2; title: Bishop Ignatius Kung's First Pastoral Letter as Bishop of Shanghai, October 7, 1950
label: Appendix 3; title: Bishop Ignatius Kung's Second Pastoral Letter, April 22, 1951
label: Appendix 4; title: New Year Address by Shanghai Catholic Students to Bishop Kung, January 1, 1952
label: Appendix 5; title: Pope Pius XII, Apostolic Letter Cupimus imprimis, The Catholic Church in China, January 18, 1952
label: Appendix 6; title: Banner composed by Bishop Kung for the Catholic Students of Shanghai
label: Appendix 7; title: New Year Address by Shanghai Catholic Students to Bishop Kung, January 1, 1953
label: Appendix 8; title: Pope Pius XII's Encyclical Ad Sinarum Gentem, on the Supra nationality of the Church, October 7, 1954
label: Appendix 9; title: Pope Pius XII's Encyclical Ad Apostolorum Principis, On Communism and the Church in China, June 29, 1958
label: Appendix 10; title: Letter of Pope Paul VI to Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Meu, October 7, 1974
label: Appendix 11; title: Bishop Kung's Appeal Letter, 1979
label: Appendix 12; title: The Stations of the Cross composed by Bishop Kung during his imprisonment
label: Appendix 13; title: Cardinal Kung's Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ
label: Appendix 14; title: The First Public Sermon preached by Bishop Ignatius Kung after his release, given on the 33rd anniversary of the arrest of Catholics in Shanghai, Saint Joseph Medical Center, Stamford, Connecticut, September 8, 1988
label: Appendix 15; title: Cardinal Kung's sermon for Catholics in China, offered in the Church of the Queen of the Angels and Queen of the Martyrs, Rome, Italy, June 30, 1991
label: Appendix 16; title: Ignatius Cardinal Kung's sermon at the Mass of Possession of his Titular Church, Saint Sixtus II, Rome, Italy, July 1, 1991
label: Appendix 17; title: Footnotes