Sacked Chinese Bishop Peter Zhuang Jianjian, who is at the centre of the latest storm around the Holy See’s controversial talks with China’s communist government, has broken his silence on being called in to Beijing by Vatican diplomats.
The confirmation of the Vatican’s role in replacing two bishops originally appointed Rome, with two bishops who were appointed by the Communist Party controlled Catholic Patriotic Association including one who has been excommunicated by Rome has continued to rock China’s so-called under-ground Catholic Church.
“But these acts, in fact, are scarifying the underground community for the benefit of half the China Church, which is the open community, not the whole,” said a researcher who does not want to offend the Vatican.
