The new leaders of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China have pledged to promote Xi Jinping’s socialist thought.
BEIJING (CNS) Two state-sponsored church bodies in China have elected new leaders, who promised to invigorate the Catholic faithful pastorally in line with the socialist principles of the Chinese Communist Party.
The three-day 10th National Congress of Catholicism in China ended in Wuhan, the capital of Hebei province in central China, Aug. 20. The national conference is held every five years, and senior Communist Party officials also attended the gathering and delivered speeches, reported u
Flag of the People's Republic of China / Yan Ke / Unsplash (CC0)CNA Newsroom, Aug 24, 2022 / 02:21 am (CNA).Chinese bishops allied with the government have promised to proceed with the "sinicization" of Catholicism in China.During a national conference in Wuhan, two organizations elected leaders who vowed to bring the Church in China in line with the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.The 10th National Congress of Catholicism in China was attended by 345 Catholic bishops, priests, and religious of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, reported UCA News.At the end of the three-day gathering, new leaders of the association and of the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) were elected. Both of these organizations are sponsored by the Chinese state. The Catholic Church in the People s Republic of China has been split between the government-sanctioned Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the underground Church, which is persecuted a