[iowamark]

July 7: New Shanghai bishop to leave CPA posts
""Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai declared today that he would give up his post in the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA) to focus on episcopal ministry.

“After today’s ordination, I would devote every effort to episcopal ministry. It is inconvenient for me to serve the CPA post anymore,” he told the congregation at his ordination ceremony in Shanghai todoay.

Bishop Ma is the first “open” bishop in recent years to announce publicly during an episcopal ordination his intention to give up his offices in the CPA – vice chair of the Shanghai CPA and member of the standing committee of the national CPA.

Pope Benedict XVI’s letter to the Church in China in 2007 stated that the aim of the CPA was incompatible with Catholic doctrine.

About 1,000 people in St. Ignatius’ Cathedral responded him with long and thunderous applause.

“He needs to have much courage to speak these words as there are many government officials present. These words are not spoken to Catholics but to the officials,” said one attendee of the ordination...""

[yldstrk]

It really is a battle between God and satan that we fight. Good for him. God will reward him; he had to make a choice and-he made the right one.

[Dr. Sivana]

and an "underground" wing long wary of associating with the Communist Party-run church.

The underground isn't a "wing", they are the Catholics in good standing. They are not "wary", but know that they simply are not allowed to embrace this puppet religion. The Patriotic Association recognizes no higher authority than the Communist government.