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Sources told AsiaNews that local priests were summoned yesterday to ratify the choice of Fr Wu Jianlin, vicar general. Another election was held in the Diocese of Xinxiang, in Henan, whose underground bishop has been arrested several times. During the sede vacante period, Beijing is reiterating the autonomy of the Church in China to test Francis’s successor over the agreement.
Shanghai (AsiaNews) – While the Catholic Church around the world mourns Pope Francis and looks to the cardinals who have arrived in Rome for the conclave that will elect the new pontiff, the bodies of the official Catholic Church in China are promoting the idea that everything must go on as if nothing had happened.
Sources told AsiaNews that in Shanghai priests with some representatives of the nuns and lay people were summoned to ratify the choice of a new auxiliary bishop, which happened yesterday. Fr Wu Jianlin, the current vicar general, was picked with only a handful of votes against. The same thing happened today in the Diocese of Xinxiang (Henan province) with only one candidate, Fr Li Janlin.
The method is the usual one, despite the agreement with the Holy See on episcopal appointments agreed by Pope Francis.
In the name of the "autonomy" of the Church in China, a point the authorities insist on, the Vatican is presented with a single candidate, chosen by assemblies of clergy ruled by agencies controlled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), with the pontiff with the reserve power to approve or not.
It must also be said that the latest two elections had probably been scheduled before the death of Pope Francis. But it is significant that those responsible for China’s religious policy decided to go ahead anyway, a way of saying that the exceptional moment in the history of the universal Church, with sede vacante, does not concern Catholics in the People's Republic.
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Shanghai (AsiaNews) – While the Catholic Church around the world mourns Pope Francis and looks to the cardinals who have arrived in Rome for the conclave that will elect the new pontiff, the bodies of the official Catholic Church in China are promoting the idea that everything must go on as if nothing had happened.
Sources told AsiaNews that in Shanghai priests with some representatives of the nuns and lay people were summoned to ratify the choice of a new auxiliary bishop, which happened yesterday. Fr Wu Jianlin, the current vicar general, was picked with only a handful of votes against. The same thing happened today in the Diocese of Xinxiang (Henan province) with only one candidate, Fr Li Janlin.
The method is the usual one, despite the agreement with the Holy See on episcopal appointments agreed by Pope Francis.
In the name of the "autonomy" of the Church in China, a point the authorities insist on, the Vatican is presented with a single candidate, chosen by assemblies of clergy ruled by agencies controlled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), with the pontiff with the reserve power to approve or not.
It must also be said that the latest two elections had probably been scheduled before the death of Pope Francis. But it is significant that those responsible for China’s religious policy decided to go ahead anyway, a way of saying that the exceptional moment in the history of the universal Church, with sede vacante, does not concern Catholics in the People's Republic.
Continued below.
Despite the death of Pope Francis, auxiliary bishop elected in Shanghai
Sources told AsiaNews that local priests were summoned yesterday to ratify the choice of Fr Wu Jianlin, vicar general. Another election was held in the Diocese of Xinxiang, in Henan, whose underground
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