Posted on 05/21/2024 3:05:25 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME -- The Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, reaffirming the Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing's sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in past centuries in their zeal to convert the Chinese faithful.
The Vatican hosted the head of China's bishops conference for an unprecedented, high-level commemoration of a landmark 1924 meeting in Shanghai that affirmed the need for foreign missionaries in China to give way to local church leaders.
The presence of Shanghai Bishop Joseph Shen Bin alongside the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University was in itself noteworthy. It marked the first time in memory that a mainland bishop has been allowed by Beijing to participate in a public Vatican event as the keynote speaker.
It was also significant given the controversy over Shen’s 2023 appointment. Pope Francis in July was forced to recognize China’s unilateral appointment of Shen as bishop of Shanghai. The appointment seemingly violated the Holy See’s 2018 accord with Beijing over bishop appointments.
Francis opened the conference with a video message in which he made no mention of recent troubles but...
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Pope Francis appears to be much more interested in and promoting of communism than of Christianity.
They’re only a threat to the Godly
Francis abandons Chinese catholics.....Hell is waiting for you Frankie......
Idiot leftist Pope actually thinks the communists need reassurance.
What did missionaries do that compares to the communist mass murders?
In WWII the Vatican referred to it as “quiet diplomacy”.
Communists arrest old bishops.
Pope doesn’t care.
Taiwan has alway allowed freedom of religion, including Catholicism.
Pope doesn’t care.
"We have been hoping for a long time to be able to have a stable presence in China," Parolin, who is Francis' deputy, said, adding the Vatican could consider new diplomatic formulas for it.
Why not? Bejing has had a stable presence in Bergoglio's Vatican.
The cardinal said the Vatican's recognition of the Council of Chinese Bishops - which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party - was also on the agenda, and a "work in progress."
Of course it is; since Bergoglio is already controlled by the Chinese Commmunist Party.
I predict he blesses abortion before he kicks the bucket.
Imagine is he was pope when Reagan, Thatcher, and Shultz brought down the Soviet Union. He would have been on the side of the commies
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