Posted on 11/18/2019 7:02:13 PM PST by marshmallow
For five days he has been under the supervision of public security personnel, under pressure. The Party wants to force him to attend a meeting of the "independent" clergy of Fujian. A member of Mindong: Pray for him, because he is very tired.
Rome (AsiaNews) - Msgr. Vincenzo Guo Xijin, underground bishop, auxiliary of Mindong (Fujian), is being hounded by public security agents to force him to sign up to an "independent Church" in exchange for government recognition.
President Xi Jinping has established that an "independent Church" subject to the Chinese Communist Party is the condition for Catholics to live in China. For underground Catholics, an "independent" Church is unacceptable, given that the Party intends this "independence" also as a detachment from the Holy See and the universal Church. For months, the Fujian authorities have been exerting pressure, blackmailing and threatening priests to push them to sign this accession in exchange for government recognition without which their ministry is forbidden.
Since November 9 last, Msgr. Guo, 61, is under the supervision of two public security guards. Every day, throughout the day at regular intervals, various figures visited him at his headquarters in Luojiang to convince him to sign the adhesion to the Party's policy.
The Party also wants the bishop to attend a meeting of the "independent" clergy of the Fujian, which is taking place in Xiamen, after the signing. The meeting will last until November 15. The Party's project is to show the submission of Msgr. Guo to weaken the resistance of underground priests, who are the majority of the clergy of the diocese.
However, Mgr. Guo refuses to go to Xiamen. Yesterday morning he was loaded into a car to take him to Xiamen, but due to the bishop’s opposition, the police then decided to take him to.....
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1) nothing has changed since the days of the Roman Empire’s persecutions; and
2) you can always trust the communists to be communists, tolerate no dissent, and break all agreements (see Hong Kong, for example)
Bishop is a Bishop. Not a Msgr.
Asian news blends over for communists.
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