{"id":3134,"date":"2007-02-01T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T10:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/the-chinese-story-continues.html"},"modified":"2007-02-01T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T10:17:29","slug":"the-chinese-story-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/the-chinese-story-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese story continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

This link to yesterday’s WSJ story on the Church and China will be live for a few more days, so check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As Beijing and the Vatican escalate their battle for control of the Roman Catholic Church in China, people like Bishop Liu Jingshan are caught painfully in the middle.<\/p>\n

The head of a diocese in the dusty plains of western China, the 93-year-old bishop is one of the church’s last living links with a pre-Communist China, when Catholics could freely profess their allegiance to the pope. Bishop Liu also serves in the compromised present-day world of Catholicism in this country, in a government-approved church which the Vatican and many Catholics view as illegitimate.<\/p>\n

For more than two decades, Bishop Liu and many other Chinese Catholics have discreetly divided their loyalties between two masters, gently nudging both toward a hoped-for rapprochement. But as Bishop Liu’s generation ages, the bridge between Beijing and Rome is wearing thin, worsening tensions on both sides.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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