The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation

解放前天主教会反革命复辟活动的罪行
Jiefangqian Tianzhu jiaohui fangeming fubi huodongde zuixing
The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation
mid 1960s
Publisher unknown
54x38 cm.
BG D25/94

A two-part series detailing the counterrevolutionary activities and "crimes" perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Mission in China before and after 1949. Both series are incomplete: the first part lacks the opening sheets; the second part lacks at least one sheet, and possibly more at the end.
Due to this, it is impossible to indicate when the series were published, where, by whom, and for what specific purpose. The last evil deed discussed, at the end of part two, dates from July 1965, during the "Four Clean Ups" movement (四清运动). This suggests that the two series were published some time in the mid-1960s.
The names of the foreign missionaries have been identified as far as possible.

Above left, "Fake hypocrisy killed Chinese babies"  (假冒的伪善大量残害中国婴儿)。

Above right, "This is a statistical table of infant mortality at the Guisui Catholic Church Infant Home in Inner Mongolia. It is just one of the statistics showing infant mortality at similar infant homes. This statistical table fully demonstrates that the Catholic Church-run infant homes and orphanages are actually hells on earth. After the children are sent in, very few can survive. The mortality rate is as high as 98%, which is a shocking level! We should firmly remember this blood debt owed by the imperialists to our people." (这是内蒙归绥天主堂婴儿院的婴儿死亡率统计表,只是显示同样的婴儿院婴儿死亡统计的一个。这一统计表充分说明:天主教会办的婴儿院,育婴堂,其实都是人间地狱,孩子们送进去以后,能够话下来的是极少极少,死亡率竟达到百分之九十八以上这样骇人的地步!我们应该牢牢记住帝国主义分子对我国人民所欠下的这一笔血债).

Below, "The 'infant halls' and 'orphanages' run by the Catholic Church are dens of evil that torture Chinese children and are hell on earth. This is an article about orphanages in the book 'Missionary Experience' published by the Central Bureau of the Catholic Church, which contains the self-confession of the imperialist Pu Lu (former Bishop of Wuhu, Anhui): 'Catholic orphanages are not places for good life, but places for good death'."

Pu Lu is the Chinese name of Zenón Arámburu Urquiola (1879-1978), a Spanish Catholic bishop and Jesuit. He served as the Bishop of Wuhu Diocese. He was expelled from China in 1952.

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