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Bishop jointly appointed by Vatican and Chinese government Mgr Giuseppe Xing Wenzhi, 42 years, was today ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai. The prelate said publicly that he received the nomination of the Holy See. In future, he will able to take the place of Mgr Aloysius Jin Luxian, who is now nearly 90 and very…

From May 16: The bus took us to Termini, the main railroad station. From there we walked down to Santa Maria Maggori on Esquiline Hill which dates from the fourth century. Magnificent art and architecture. Another overwhelming experience. Leaving the church, we picked up a few souvenir items in a little shop located in its…

My father has been updating his journal of their Rome trip, but I’ve been negligent about posting them…so here we go. I’m going to work backwards because I’m lazy, and some will just be posted in excerpts –  but here goes – May 18, their adventures in the seat of Italian government:

He passed away last night, at the age of 88. You know him, of course, as a Civil War historian and narrator of the Ken Burns series. Some of us also know him as one of the late Walker Percy’s closest friends – they met when they were teenagers in Greenville, Mississippi, Walker having moved…
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