China: Giuseppe Ma Yan’en Installed as Auxiliary Bishop of Zhangjiakou

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Following the slow policy of small steps and the strategy of "returning favors", after the official recognition on Wednesday, Leo XIV, of a diocese unilaterally instituted by the Chinese government in 1980 and accepting to put the candidate elected by Beijing at the helm, China has this Friday "civilly" recognized two technically clandestine bishops, whom the Vatican appointed in 2010 and 2013 and which his country ignored. "We welcome the news …

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In the "new" diocese of Hebei established by Leo XIV today the two ceremonies were held with which the authorities officially recognized two clandestine bishops. The Holy See: "relevant step in the path of communion." But Beijing puts in their mouth (falsely) the usual thesis on the independence of the Church in China and patriotism sowing already weeds with the faithful of the communities that the move should serve to unite.