Right now there are two catholic churches. One is the "patriotic church", that appoints its own bishops without consent from the Vatican, and which persecutes the real Catholic Church, in which attendance is illegal.
Recently the head of the patriotic church died and was given state funeral:
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9060&theme=1&size=A
What's next?
2007-04-26 14:24:57 · 6 answers · asked by the good guy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i attended mass last sunday at nantang while the wake of fu tieshan was on the other side building. very few people stood in line to bid him farewell. i believe that it is only a matter of time that the chinese will again belong to one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. no more patriotic or underground but one united with the vicar of christ pope benedict XVI. about seventy percent of the clergy of the so called patriotic church already vow allegiance to the pope. hope that is true.
2007-04-27 02:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out this stunning news:
It has been reported that Jiang Zemin, president of China from 1993 to 2003, said that he was tempted to make Christianity the official religion of China.
"One of the things we [Chinese scholars] were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact the pre-eminence of the West [America] over the world. We studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you [America] had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on the economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West is so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don't have any doubt about this."
Whoa!
2007-04-26 14:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully neither win.
2007-04-26 14:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by Kermit 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about Scientology?
2007-04-26 14:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by ibid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lets hope that for the good of society they continue to suppress it
2007-04-26 14:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
What about atheism?
2007-04-26 14:33:06 · answer #6 · answered by 19850421 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋