Posted on 08/21/2008 1:31:21 PM PDT by NYer
Zhengding (AsiaNews) - More than a thousand underground Catholics defied police controls to meet in a church in Wuqiu (Hebei) to celebrate mass on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary with their bishop, Julius Jia Zhiguo, who has been under house arrest and police surveillance around the clock. Sources told AsiaNews however that the bishop is isolated and that priests and seminarians cannot see him in person. Monsignor Jia is bishop of the underground diocese of Zhengding (Hebei), which has more than 110,000 Catholics with 80 priests and more than 90 nuns.
For the Olympics public security officers warned Catholics in the diocese not to celebrate the feast in Wuqiu cathedral. Prelates and priests were placed instead under house arrest.
Mgr Jia Zhiguo himself has been under police surveillance around the clock since April. The police even build a small house in front of the bishop's residence just to monitor him.
The solemnity of the Assumption is a major Catholic celebration in China. At least a thousand faithful peacefully flocked to the church in Wuqiu in defiance of police order.
The bishop's residence is located just beside the place of worship.
To avoid conflict and other problems, the public security officers monitoring the cathedral allowed the large crowd to go in. The officers did not follow them into the church but maintained order in the courtyard.
The bishop was thus able to celebrate mass with the faithful.
Sources in Zhengding told AsiaNews that the bishop remains in isolation and cannot see or meet his seminarians or priests.
The government in China is evil. Pure evil.
But in the end, good will endure and defeat evil.
It’s a guarantee.
I sense that good is starting to endure and is doing its work in its own special way when it comes to the oppressive government in China. Proof is to be seen in the summer olympics in that team USA is beating team China in the number of medals being won. The Chinesse had this project known as “Project 119”, a project to get more Chinesse to win more medals over the Americans at Bejing. But even that is crumbling with the number of medals being won by the Americans. God Bless American and team USA.
Communist China supports phony Patriotic Catholic Church and phony underage Olympic atheletes. While looking legit on the surface, people are quite aware of the truth.
A brave man and he’s standing in front of his greatest ally. As long as she’s in his corner he can’t lose.
A brave man and he’s standing in front of his greatest ally. As long as she’s in his corner he can’t lose.
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