{"id":6278,"date":"2005-06-23T22:52:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/progress-2.html"},"modified":"2005-06-23T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:52:20","slug":"progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/progress-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/050623\/481\/xrs10306231004\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20050623\/capt.xrs10306231004.china_vatican_bishop_xrs103.jpg?x=380&amp;y=266&amp;sig=.EPVGytMqdSiV00m7vyyLA--\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/n\/a\/2005\/06\/23\/international\/i123150D06.DTL\">Shangai bishop seeks to heal division<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s been called a counterfeit cleric, a usurper who betrayed the Catholic Church while others languished due to their loyalty to the pope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian&#8217;s 27 years in prison and labor camps have done little to ease the bitterness of supporters of China&#8217;s underground church. Nor has more than a decade of hard work spent rebuilding the Shanghai Diocese through the official Communist Party-recognized Catholic association.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now at age 89, Jin says a tacit agreement between Rome and Beijing on his successor may help heal some of the division \u2014 although he doubts the two sides will be reconciled soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;The pope in Rome wanted to establish diplomatic relations with other countries, including China,&quot; Jin told The Associated Press in an interview this month at his office beside Shanghai&#8217;s century-old cathedral.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;If both sides don&#8217;t make some concessions, normalization won&#8217;t come about immediately,&quot; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shangai bishop seeks to heal division He&#8217;s been called a counterfeit cleric, a usurper who betrayed the Catholic Church while others languished due to their loyalty to the pope. Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian&#8217;s 27 years in prison and labor camps have done little to ease the bitterness of supporters of China&#8217;s underground church. Nor&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-6278","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>Progress? - 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\/2005\/06\/progress-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Progress? - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shangai bishop seeks to heal division He&#8217;s been called a counterfeit cleric, a usurper who betrayed the Catholic Church while others languished due to their loyalty to the pope. 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