Another hard line communist attack on freedom/liberty. Chinese state overseer appoints a bishop instead of the Vatican. Oligarchy control freak insanity!
BEIJING/ROME — The Vatican condemned the appointment of a Chinese Catholic bishop without its approval, hours after a source said one of Rome's own newly ordained bishops had been detained in a seminary in China.
In a move likely to strain already frayed relations with Beijing, the Vatican Tuesday said it refused to recognize the ordination on July 6 of Reverend Joseph Yue Fusheng in Harbin, complaining his elevation by Beijing's state-run Church overseer had not been blessed by the pope and was therefore meaningless.
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