ASIA/HONG KONG - To mark 3rd anniversary of the death of Cardinal Wu diocese publishes a collection of his Pastoral Letters offering general picture of the development of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The diocesan archive of Hong Kong has published a collection of 171 pastoral and open Letters written by the late Cardinal John Baptist Wu who died on 23 September 2002 after being Bishop of Hong Kong for 27 years.
The initiative was to commemorate the beloved Cardinal on the 3rd anniversary of his death. According to the diocese bulletin Kong Ko Bao from the Cardinal’s letters one can see the development of the diocese. The volume includes a biography and photographs of Cardinal Wu remembered as a great witness of the faith. Before the ‘handover’ in 1997 when Hong Kong returned under mainland China, Cardinal Wu wrote a pastoral letter illustrating the Church’s opinion of the political and social situation in the former British colony at the time.
When Cardinal Wu died in 2002 Pope John Paul II sent Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to represent him at the funeral on 28 September. In his homily Cardinal Sepe said among other things: “Words cannot express all our admiration for Cardinal John Baptist Wu or all our grief for this great loss”.
(Agenzia Fides 27/09/2005 Righe: 24 Parole: 243)