Reports from China seem to indicate that the Vatican is asking several legitimate bishops, loyal to Rome, to give way to bishops approved by the government-sponsored Patriotic Church. If true, it may have serious consequences for the underground Church, which has remainder heroic and independent despite decades of pressures and persecution.
Vatican: submitting to China?
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