Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk

Through the tumultuous late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lu Zhengxiang--a devoted disciple of both Confucius and Christ--served his native China as a leading diplomat and statesman for more than thirty years. He entered the Catholic Church in 1911 and became a Benedictine monk in 1927.

In 1942, during the German occupation of Belgium, the elderly monk, now known as Abbot Pierre-C