Posted on 04/01/2018 6:02:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
Members of China’s Christian community feel betrayed by the Vatican’s negotiations with Beijing over Chinese bishop appointments. In fact, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) writes of Catholics feeling as “betrayed and abandoned” as Jesus on Good Friday.
Christian faith occupies a curious position in Chinese society—frowned upon and distrusted by the Communist elite, but not currently oppressed as savagely as in neighboring North Korea. Some Chinese Catholics belong to churches authorized by the state, but others say those churches are controlled by the state and prefer to worship at “underground” churches free of political influence.
Some of those churches are not very far underground; the SCMP describes one that is festooned with government surveillance cameras, but forty or so Catholics congregate there anyway. Another passage in the article describes an entire village of 3,000 underground Catholics kept under creepy surveillance by cameras and undercover police. Some estimates suggested there are about 12 million Catholics in China, and 60 percent of them belong to state-sanctioned churches.
Amid much controversy, the Vatican has been negotiating the resumption of formal diplomatic relations with Beijing. One of the key issues concerns how bishops would be appointed. China’s authoritarian government wants politically reliable bishops to manage a Catholicism that harmonizes with the Communist Party’s political agenda.
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Pope Marx favors the ChiComs?
Whoda guessed....
I don’t know much about the Catholic Church, but from what I’ve read, it seems they are moving in the wrong direction....
Commie Pope, Commie nation.
Methinks Pope Che will create a schism in the Catholic Church.
Sad.
The Vatican is betraying them.
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"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!" |
What happened to the pastoral pope that we were told about?
The underground Church is the true Church, even in the best of times, how much more so under a beast government like the Chinese Communists,
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