We fight on all sides....ok God, we can fight on all sides, as You wish. It is our fault afterall, for not fighting harder earlier and all along. Our hierachy are speed bumps at this point, just othervobsstacles to run over in the fight.
In a lengthy interview published by L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Feb. 3, Cardinal Filoni likened the unique nature of the division - which came after the Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in 1949 - to “a large boulder” falling from a mountain and stopping the flow of water of the Catholic faith.
“One part of the water flowed underground, while the other part continued to twist and turn on the surface,” he said. The Vatican’s work has been about rediscovering “the unity of the two currents,” but it was not and “is still not easy.”
For the Vatican, “it has always been held that in China there are not two churches, a ‘patriotic church’ and a ‘faithful church,'” he said. The church in China is one and it has been the faith of the people that has saved it from schism, he added.