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Articles by Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.

About Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.
Anthony E. Clark is an associate professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University and the author of China’s Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing, 1644-1911. He is also the host of the EWTN television series The Saints of China: Martyrs of the Middle Kingdom.
Clark on China

The Saints of Wuhan: Isolation, Suffering, and the Breath of Faith

December 29, 2020 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 18

Note: This account of the Catholic martyr saints who died in the Wuchang district of Wuhan, China, was delivered after the Holy Mass offered by Bishop Thomas Daly at the Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral, […]

The Dispatch

“Kick Christmas Out of China”: Christians face more challenges in the PRC

December 27, 2020 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 6

China continues to occupy headlines across the globe, but party officials within the Great Wall have taken little, if any, heed of international opinion. Media reports vary from anxious predictions of China’s economic rise to […]

Clark on China

China’s Catholic Leviathan: Jesuits and the Sino-Vatican Agreement

October 26, 2020 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 35

On October 22nd, the Holy See Press Office announced that the Vatican has renewed its agreement with China’s state officials – the new expiration date of the agreement is October 22, 2022. The Vatican states: […]

Clark on China

Understanding the 2018 China-Vatican agreement a year later

November 10, 2019 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 21

It has been more than a year since the Sino-Vatican agreement signed on September 22, 2018, and the situation of China’s Catholics continues to attract media attention. In my long career of researching and publishing […]

Clark on China

China, politics, faith, and the liturgical village: Cardinal Joseph Zen in context

June 10, 2019 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 8

Editor’s note: During the week of May 28 to 31, 2019, several hundred Catholic lay faithful, priests, deacons, nuns, and three bishops gathered at Spokane, Washington, for the annual Sacred Liturgy Conference. The conference was […]

Essay

Bonfire of the Humanities: The Moorings of Academy Adrift

March 10, 2019 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 11

Editor’s note: Anthony E. Clark, the Edward B. Lindaman Chair at Whitworth University, recently delivered the last of four talks on various topics related to important historical and social issues, such as religious freedom, religious […]

Features

Oxford’s Catholic Revival: “The battle for freedom to practice our religion is never done”

October 7, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 9

“But ‘tis the talent of our English nation/still to be plotting some new Reformation” – John Dryden Introduction: Catholic endurance during the English Reformation Oxford, which I visited for two weeks this past July and […]

Clark on China

Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

September 24, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 2

“During the past forty years, the Church in China has suffered severe persecution. . . . Please pray for the suffering Church in China!” – Ignatius Cardinal Gong Pinmei (June 30, 1991)  The Vatican has […]

The Dispatch

Cardinal Zen: Chinese Catholics’ “continuous harassments…would take volumes to be narrated.”

March 9, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 13

I would like the express my gratitude to Cardinal Zen for agreeing to answer a few questions for Catholic World Report at this crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church in China. Over […]

Clark on China

The Catholic Church in China: Historical context and the current situation

March 9, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 13

Chinese Catholics—“above” and “underground”—view themselves as part of “one suffering Catholic Church.” Will the Vatican’s present negotiations with China help or hinder those struggling to […]

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