What pressure is this?
New Vatican Guidelines for China - July 3, 2004To: All Legitimately Appointed Bishops of the Catholic Dioceses in China ... I encourage that we all firmly maintain the principle of faith and full communion. This is very important in order to belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church ... The Holy Father or the Holy See will never force the loyal/underground Church community to make concessions on the question of principles ... Obviously, the Patriotic Association has the characteristic of being in schism ... Bishops and priests can never accept the principles underlying the Patriotic Association ... All legitimate priests and deacons should obey the "8-point" directive, and will therefore not have "communicatio in sacris" either with illegitimate bishops and religious or with those religious under the Patriotic Association ... For the sake of prudence, when reconciling with the Patriotic Association’s priests and deacons, or when accepting into the diocese these priests and deacons who were ordained without a dimissorial letter from their proper ordinary, the following procedures must be observed ... He must read the "professio fidei," and promise never to speak or do anything damaging the reconciliation. He must also clearly declare that he opposes the Patriotic Association and its "three autonomies" principles ... He must publicly reject the principles of the Patriotic Association ... He must publicly declare that he no longer belongs to the Patriotic Association ... He must declare that he will not have any further relationship with the Patriotic Association in the future, nor he will support it ... He must declare that he obeys the "8-point" directive, and that he will not have any "communicatio in sacris" with any illegal bishops or religious belonging to the Patriotic Association.
Well, are they in schism or not?