(Catholic Herald) — Following the Vatican’s secret deal with China, Catholic bishops are being secretly consecrated to serve the Underground Church in the country, according to new details shared by a fellow underground bishop.
Shortly after the signing of the Vatican’s secret deal with China in 2018, Catholics in the Underground Church professed to feeling betrayed. AsiaNews – a site that regularly documents the abductions and torturing of underground Catholics – reported that “Underground Catholics bitterly suspect that the Vatican has abandoned them.”
Since then, the Chinese government’s process of Sinicization – by which China subverts religions to the control of the Communist state – has proliferated and persecution of the Underground Church loyal to Rome has also increased.
“It is the government that China’s Catholics today resist, not their fellow faithful,” said an un-named Chinese bishop as part of a detailed analysis published recently by Catholic World Report. …
The rest of this correspondent’s report, originally published on the Catholic Herald, is found at this link.