{"id":2085,"date":"2006-05-15T08:27:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/another-one-2.html"},"modified":"2006-05-15T08:27:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:27:40","slug":"another-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/another-one-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Another one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-2180675,00.html\">China does it again<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CHINA threw down a fresh challenge to the Vatican yesterday by installing a third bishop in its state-approved Catholic church in defiance of Rome. <\/p>\n<p>Zhan Silu, 45, became bishop of the Mindong diocese in southeastern Fujian province, where the Catholic Church is particularly strong but where most of the faithful are members of an underground church loyal to Rome. <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"right\">\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>His appointment is controversial because it was sanctioned by China\u2019s state-approved church but has not been blessed by Pope Benedict XVI. It jeopardises any progress achieved in recent tortuous and quiet contacts with the Vatican towards normalising relations, which have been frozen since the 1949 Communist takeover. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/closedcafeteria.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/cardinal-zen-celebrates-tridentine.html\">Speaking of that part of the world &#8211; Gerald at &quot;The Cafeteria is Closed&quot; has pics and notes on Cardinal Zen celebrating a Tridentine liturgy, upon the ocassion of the 15th anniversary of the Indult in Hong Kong.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China does it again CHINA threw down a fresh challenge to the Vatican yesterday by installing a third bishop in its state-approved Catholic church in defiance of Rome. 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