Vatican Sends Protest to Beijing Over Arrest of Underground Bishop

Catholic Culture reports: A special Vatican commission on the Church in China concluded a 3-day meeting on April 1, and released a statement condemning the pressures placed upon faithful Catholics by the Beijing regime. The commission voiced its “profound anguish” over the news that Bishop Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, the most prominent leader of the “underground” Church in China, had been re-arrested, and spoke more generally about the “undue pressures and limitations” placed upon other loyal Catholics.  Read more here.