To: Hermann the Cherusker
ONLY ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA, VATICAN PRELATE SAYS
From the above link:
In response, the Chinese government scheduled the installation of five new bishops for the "Patriotic Catholic Association," without approval from the Holy See, for January 5, 2001-- the same day when Pope John Paul II consecrated several new bishops in the Vatican basilica.
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Since when do non-Catholic, non Christian communist officials have the authority to name Catholic Bishops?
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
They don't have the authority to name Catholic Bishops. But the fact that they torture enough Priests until some of them are willing to "burn incense to the Emperor" by being consecrated by the CPCA Bishops does not make the faithful or the priests under them schismatics.
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