Chinese TV, papers black out funeral

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From Beijing's old official churches to underground congregations in the countryside, China's Catholics were marking the burial of Pope John Paul II yesterday despite an official blackout on the ceremony.

Print media paid no attention to the funeral, and state television said it would also ignore the event, leaving it to individual believers to commemorate the pontiff.

"I suspect that people will be praying for the pope during our regular mass," said a member of an underground church in Baoding city, a hotspot of unofficial Catholicism in northern Hebei Province. "We're in a sad mood, we think he was a great person."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/09/2003249746

[et in Arcadia ego...]

1. Wow, that sounds familiar.

cough...Dover...cough...