[NYer]

What a surprise .. not! The mainstream media in China, like the US, are ignorant.

[bramps]

Actually the author is the ignorant one. I did 5 minutes of research and apparently know more than this ‘professor’. I found other articles corroborating the original story but nothing backing up the ‘professor’.

Catholic Churches in Beijing:

Southern Cathedral (Nantang) is the oldest Catholic Church in Beijing, founded in the middle of 16th century. With its present form comes from the rebuilding in 1904, this church forms the Catholic centre of Beijing. Latin masses are held six days a week and the 10am Sunday mass, delivered in English and French, attracts a huge diversity of Beijing Catholics from many different countries. Address: 141 Qianmenxi Dajie, Xuanwu District. Telephone: +86 10 66026538 Mass Times: Monday to Friday 6.00am(Latin), 6:30&7:15am(Chinese); Saturday 6:30pm(Chinese); Sunday 6.00am(Latin), 7.00&8:30am(Chinese), 10.00am&4.00pm(English)