"In receiving episcopal consecration at your hands, I am deeply aware of the bonds which unite us with the chair of St. Peter. … I promise you and in your person I promise the Vicar of Christ, obedience and fidelity."
Bishop Kung, at the consecration, Oct. 1949, Shanghai.
"Bishop Ignatius Kung ... was appointed Bishop of Shanghai in 1950. Five years later he was arrested … sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminded ‘a counterrevolutionary clique under the cloak of religion’ which was really a paranoid way of saying that Bishop Kung steadfastly refused to join the CHINESE CATHOLIC PATRIOTIC ASSOICATION. This organization, sponsored and controlled by the Government, has rejected papal authority and severed relations with Rome… He was released in July 1985."
American, July 1995.
At this private meeting in 1989 with Pope John Paul II, Bishop Kung was told that he was a Cardinal in Petore (in the heart) and was finally proclaimed in 1991.
"Your participation in Friday’s Consistory was the realization of an intention which has been with me since the beginning of my Pontificate… By honoring you the Holy See honors the whole faithful Church in China."
Pope John Paul II, June 1991.
Joseph Kung, President, Cardinal Kung Foundation testified before the Subcommittee of Human Rights of the US Congress.
