Msgr. Robert Batule: The Passion of the Lord

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Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!). Artist Antonio Ciseri. Circa 1860 and circa 1880. Medium oil on canvas. The author died in 1891, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

By Msgr. Robert Batule, Crisis Magazine, March 29, 2024

Msgr. Robert J. Batule is a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. He is currently the Pastor of Saint Margaret Church in Selden, New York. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Social Science Review ….

To behold the Cross and to behold the truth are acts which can only be accomplished with the virtue of courage. The pusillanimous need not apply.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago (2000), an elderly Chinese man’s death in Stamford, Connecticut, was reported in the media. His name was Ignatius Kung, and he had lived in the United States since 1988. He was born in his native China at the beginning of the twentieth century (1901), and there he had received the oil of Baptism making him a Catholic. He belonged to what later would become known as “the underground church”—meaning that he eschewed the government-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association.

It was the oil of Holy Orders though which made Ignatius Kung’s Catholic faith so intolerable to the Chinese government. In 1955, while Bishop of Shanghai, he and several hundred priests were arrested and imprisoned for counter-revolutionary actions. For the next thirty years, the bishop was imprisoned and forbidden from exercising his ministry. He was secretly named a cardinal (in pectore) by Pope John Paul II in 1979. In 1988, Cardinal Ignatius Kung left his homeland to live quietly as an exile about an hour from New York City. At the age of 98, he succumbed to stomach cancer, and thus did the Church gain another intercessor to help us be faithful disciples. …

Msgr. Robert Batule: The Passion of the Lord

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By Msgr. Robert Batule, Crisis Magazine, March 29, 2024

To behold the Cross and to behold the truth are acts which can only be accomplished with the virtue of courage. The pusillanimous need not apply.

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