I never heard that they promoted the Orthodox, or The Communist Patriotic Church in China.
You're making quite a leap here, to say that the authors reject the authority of the pope. If they did why would they be writing a letter to the pope appealing to his authority as pope?
You're not making any sense.
Do you have any objections to anything they actually ask of the pope, or are you just trying to discredit them by making false accusations against them in order to shut the down discussion?
Cardinal Etchegary, in full communion with Rome, has done so and Unam Sanctam has defended his attendance at the schismatic CPA Masses.
The Vatican's Cardinal Roger Etchegaray has moved to stress that the Holy See regards China's "Patriotic" Church, which is loyal to the Government, as part of the universal Church.
There is a view that the "underground" Church, which sees itself as defying the Government in order to to mantain loyalty with Rome, is the only "true" Catholic Church in China.
Cardinal Etchegaray, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, spend ten days in China at the end of last month. In the past he has frequently served as the Pope's diplomatic envoy.
He denied the existence of a divide between the underground and Government-recognised patriotic elements of the Catholic Church.
"There is only one Church with two faces," he said. "There is not one 'patriotic' Church and one 'underground' Church, one legal and the other protesting."
Priestly Faculties Granted to Patriotic Association Priests in the United States