Vatican-China Agreement Is Up for Renewal
Vatican-China Agreement Is Up for Renewal
The Chinese government is stepping up aggression against religion; is the 2018 Vatican-China deal still working?
By Christina Deardurff
A number of Christian churches in Lu’an were left without crosses (photo from the BITTER WINTER website). Top, the buildings with crosses; second row, after the crosses were removed.
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli
The Vatican’s interim 2-year agreement with the Communist Chinese government, signed September 22, 2018, is set to expire in September of this year, and it remains unclear whether the Vatican will and perhaps more importantly, should renew the deal for another year, or even two.
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HONGDONG: Msgr. Pietro Liu Genzhu was ordained bishop of the diocese of Hongdong-Linfen (Shanxi) this morning. His appointment was recognized by the Holy See and the Chinese government.
Msgr. Liu had already been vicar general of Linfen since 2010. The diocese had no bishop since 2006, following the death of the then ordinary Msgr. Sun Yuanmo, although Msgr. Liu was the Holy See candidate for a long time. Today s is the second episcopal ordination after the renewal of the Sino-Vatican Agreement last October. The first was the ordination in Qingdao.
The news of his ordination was immediately released by the Patriotic Association and the Shanxi Bishops Council.