Catholic News Service: The commission’s message began by noting the “general climate of disorientation and anxiety about the future” of the church in China, following recent setbacks in church-state relations. It said that given the numerous vacant dioceses in China, the selection of new bishops was an urgent necessity and at the same time “a source of deep concern.” “The commission strongly hopes that there will not be new wounds to ecclesial communion,” it said. “We look with trepidation and fear to the future: We know that it is not entirely in our hands, and we launch an appeal so that the problems do not grow and that the divisions are not deepened, at the expense of harmony and peace.” Read full report here.
