Posted on 12/01/2019 6:50:54 AM PST by marshmallow
November 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Vincent Guo was supposed to be the poster child of a successful rapprochement between the Vatican and China, as well as a sign that the longstanding rift between the Underground Catholic church and its state-run counterpart had been healed. Instead, he is on the run from the Communist authorities. How did this happen?
Until last year, Bishop Guo was the ordinary of the Diocese of Mindong, located in the southern province of Fujian. He was recognized by the Holy See, but not by the Party-State, which had imposed an unpopular—and unrecognized--Patriotic “bishop” by the name of Zhan Silu on the same diocese. While the Underground church was thriving—with 80,000 members, 57 priests, 200 nuns, 300 consecrated lay people and hundreds of lay catechists—the Patriotic church counterpart run by Msgr. Zhan boasted less than ten thousand members served by only 12 priests.
With the signing of the “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and China on September 22, 2018, the diocese was turned upside down--literally. The excommunication of Msgr. Zhan and six other invalidly ordained bishops was lifted by Pope Francis, and Bishop Guo stepped down as the ordinary of the Mindong diocese in favor of Bishop Zhan, and became his auxiliary.
AsiaNews reported that Pope Francis had actually asked for this "sacrifice" from Msgr. Guo the year before--in December 2017--in order to promote the “unity of the Church and guarantee the signing of the agreement between China and the Holy See.” In other words, Bishop Guo was demoted at Beijing’s request.
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Let US pray that misguided; immigration, Islam, and climate bridge builder Pope Francis gets a Colonel Boggie moment ( the lead character in the movie Bridge On The River Qwai played by Alex Guinness) and does a mea culpa and finally decides to question the results of what he’s done what he’s done and falls on the detonator which destroys the bridges he built) and resigns.
How can it be called a disaster, when it was planned by The Pope and the Chinese government? Calling it a disaster implies something unforeseen, not a deliberate plan.
On the run? But Francis stated today Christians are not Christians unless they are joyful just like the early martyrs.
Score another hit for the pope and another definition of Joy from him.
By the time his papacy is done, A Christian will be defined by ecological practices, aacceptance of every sexual aberration, a type of Christ that is found syncretically in every religion, His sacrificial redemption is not a factor in Revelation and a Catholicism bleached and etiolated of meaning
Catacombs, here we come.
Ping
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