Vatican Largely Silent as China Forces Catholics to ‘Adapt to Socialist Society’

The National Catholic Register ^ | 3/20/23 | Ed Pentin

[marshmallow]

For many years, knowledgeable voices have been warning the Vatican about the dangers of Sinicization.

VATICAN CITY — As the Chinese Communist Party continues to enforce its Sinicization program, placing ever tighter controls on religions and co-opting them to promote Marxist doctrine, the Vatican remains largely silent publicly despite the program’s total incompatibility with the Catholic faith.

In an address on March 5 to open China’s National People’s Congress, outgoing Chinese Premier Li Keqiang boasted of how much the Sinicization of religions has been implemented, saying it has been carried out “gradually” and stressing the necessity that the CCP “actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society.”

The overall goal of Sinicization is the forcible acculturation and assimilation of Chinese communist culture into society — a program that has led to the brutal persecution of the Islamic Uyghurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, as well as minorities in other areas such as Tibet and Inner Mongolia.

Meanwhile, authorities in the province of Henan in north-central China, which has the highest percentage of Christians in the country, have been implementing the Sinicization program with zeal, forcing all religious followers to register to worship in churches, mosques, or Buddhist temples.

Through a government-created phone app, believers must provide personal details such as name, telephone number, identity card details, permanent residence, occupation and date of birth, Asia News reported March 8.

At the same time, state bodies ostensibly representing the interests of the Catholic Church and other civil society interests are merely a cover to rubber stamp such a policy, say China-watchers.

[JJBookman]

Did Frankie drop the dime on them naughty Chinese Catholics?

[ebb tide]

Ping

[irishjuggler]

Vatican remains largely silent publicly despite Bergoglio’s total incompatibility with the Catholic faith.

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