{"id":2408,"date":"2006-05-03T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/another-bishop-for-china.html"},"modified":"2006-05-03T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T19:47:18","slug":"another-bishop-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/another-bishop-for-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Another bishop for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second in two days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/view.php?l=en&amp;art=6064\">AsiaNews:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to <em>AsiaNews<\/em> sources, the Vatican made a final attempt to stop the ordination by sending a personal message to Father Liu asking him to not submit himself to the ordination.&nbsp; This is the second illegal ordination in less than a week, after the one that took place in Kunming last April 30.&nbsp; These two ordinations, and those \u2013 at least 20 \u2013 that will come in the near future, were scheduled by Anthony Liu Bainian, Vice-President of the Patriotic Association, the organization that controls the Church and that has among its aims to foster a nationalistic Church independent of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Over recent years, Beijing and Rome had arrived at a working agreement by which the Vatican had the last word on candidates for the episcopacy.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong stated the ambiguous behaviour of Beijing \u201cis destroying any trust\u201d and is putting a halt to initial steps to dialogue between China and the Vatican.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0602566.htm\">CNS<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>On Jan. 6, 2000, five bishops were ordained in Beijing without papal mandate, which strained relations between China and the Vatican. China ordained another bishop that June without papal approval.<\/p>\n<p>One Chinese Catholic source told <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/index.html\" target=\"new\"><span style=\"color: #990033\">Catholic News Service<\/span><\/a><span> that at least one and probably more than one of those bishops have since reconciled with the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2001, UCA News reported that some 70 seminarians and teachers were expelled from China&#8217;s national seminary for not attending the unapproved ordinations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=6635\">Catholic News Agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second in two days. AsiaNews: According to AsiaNews sources, the Vatican made a final attempt to stop the ordination by sending a personal message to Father Liu asking him to not submit himself to the ordination.&nbsp; This is the second illegal ordination in less than a week, after the one that took place in Kunming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another bishop for China - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/another-bishop-for-china.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another bishop for China - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Second in two days. 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