Two high-ranking Vatican cardinals have voiced support for the renewal of the controversial 2018 accord between the Holy See and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the naming of bishops.
“For us, this also represents a challenge to find new words, new persuasive and familiar examples for their sensitivity, to help them understand more easily what we really care about,” he stated.
“The Party-led Catholic national religious organizations also published a plan to ‘sinicize’ Catholicism in China,” the report continued, referring to the stated aim of the Chinese Communist Party of forcing all religions to conform their teachings and practices to the party line. China has, in fact, cracked down on the underground church ever since the Holy See softened its position on the state-controlled CCPA, allowing believers to join despite its assertion of total independence from Rome.
“Observers and Catholic believers expressed concern that the agreement did not provide sufficient support for the Chinese Catholic community, with one scholar pointing out that the authorities’ persecution of both underground and official Catholic communities has actually intensified over the last year under the ‘‘sinicization’’ campaign,” it read.
More broadly, the regulations “stipulate how the groups should designate their officials, carry out their work and manage their own affairs,” the report stated.
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