{"id":19285,"date":"2016-12-09T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=19285"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:14:59","slug":"chinas-priests-wary-of-new-agreement-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/12\/09\/chinas-priests-wary-of-new-agreement-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s priests wary of new agreement &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Chin<\/strong><strong>ese<\/strong><strong> priests wary of <\/strong><strong>new agreement between Vatican and China<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Closer ties between the Vatican and Beijing authorities are viewed with skepticism by many Chinese Catholic priests who, for the past 60 years, have been split between those who remain loyal to the Pope and others who are under the control of the Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese clergy fear that in the interest of maintaining good relations, the Vatican will accept a communist stranglehold over China\u2019s Catholics. Among the main opponents of the recent agreement is the respected Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, who believes the agreement risks abandoning those believers who are loyal to the Vatican and amounts to a deal with the devil which will\u00a0 give the Communist control of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunism is a terrible totalitarian regime and people who haven\u2019t experienced that find it difficult to understand that,\u201d Zen said. He added that Pope Francis \u201cwants to make peace with everybody, that\u2019s very good, but sometimes I think the reality is cruel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican authorities \u201csay they hope that by this agreement, the people may live their faith peacefully,\u201d Zen said. \u201cBut if there is no freedom, there is no peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zen called the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) members \u201cpuppets of the government\u201d who have profited from their positions. CPCA is an association established in 1957 by the People&#8217;s Republic of China&#8217;s Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China&#8217;s Catholics. In 1958, Pope Pius XII deplored the attitude and activities of the Association and declared that bishops who participated in consecrating \u00a0new bishops selected by CPCA would be excommunicated<\/p>\n<p>If the Vatican recognised CPCA, Zen fears Beijing could feel emboldened to \u201celiminate\u201d the underground church, whose members would be left \u201cdesperate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Francesco Sisci, a researcher at Renmin University, has been following \u00a0the situation between China and the Vatican for decades. He believes that the split in the Catholic church in China is not just political but is also part of a power struggle. \u201cThe Catholic church is split between factions that hate each other,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the same area, you have two bishops rivalling for power, for money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese priests wary of new agreement between Vatican and China &nbsp; Closer ties between the Vatican and Beijing authorities are viewed with skepticism by many Chinese Catholic priests who, for the past 60 years, have been split between those who remain loyal to the Pope and others who are under the control of the Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China\u2019s priests wary of new agreement - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/12\/09\/chinas-priests-wary-of-new-agreement-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China\u2019s priests wary of new agreement - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese priests wary of new agreement between Vatican and China &nbsp; 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