More religious-freedom difficulties in China

As Nina Shea reports, here, the PRC and its "Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association" are moving strongly against Catholic Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who "has not been publicly seen since July 7, the day he was ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai and the day when he dissented from state religious policy. Catholic sources report that the 44-year-old Bishop Ma is now being detained under a form of house arrest, cynically described as a 'retreat' by state religious authorities."  God bless him.