This news is so disheartening that I am unable to comment.
Associated Press includes this lie in its wimpish and accommodating article:
“While China’s most onerous restrictions on religious activity have been lifted, many of the country’s estimated 12 million Catholics worship in congregations outside the state-approved church.”
China’s “most onerous restrictions” on Catholic religious activity have not been lifted; they continue in full force. Restrictions have been lifted for those schismatics who register with the government run Catholic Patriotic Association. In joining the Association one must sign a denial of one’s allegiance to the authority of the pope. Priests and bishops who have not joined are routinely rounded up and incarcerated. Many of them have never been heard from. Many of them are doing hard labor in “reeducation camps.”
You can read the whole page of misinformation here.
