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This is a 6 page paper discussing the political and religious issues involved in Catholicism in modern day China. Although the Catholic religion has been a part of Chinese life for the past 400 years, the last 50 years has seen a political division in the Church because of the 1949 Communist victory. The Communist government created the “official” Catholic Church in China which essentially divided the Church into two groups: those who followed the Chinese official Catholic Church and those who followed the Vatican who had to go underground to practice their beliefs. Since that time, the Vatican, Beijing and the followers of the Catholic faith in China have undergone a tumultuous journey on the path to reconciliation and normalization.
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1949 Communist victory. The Communist government created the "official" Catholic Church in China which essentially divided the Church into two groups: those who followed the Chinese official Catholic Church and
those who followed the Vatican who had to go underground to practice their beliefs. Since that time, the Vatican, Beijing and the followers of the Catholic faith in China have
undergone a tumultuous journey on the path to reconciliation and normalization. Roman Catholics have been a part of Chinas religious and political life
since the 17th century when Jesuit Matteo Ricci forged a relationship with Emperor Wan Li. Since the 1949 Communist victory however, Mao Zedong cut all ties with Catholic Rome and
set up an official "patriotic" Catholic Church which rejected papal authority at which time the anti-communist representatives from the Vatican in China were expelled from Beijing and fled to Taiwan
(Liu, Hesse and Kaiser, 2001). In the 1950s, all Western missionaries in China also fled to Hong Kong, Taiwan or Southeast-Asia and those who remained in China were very
conservative. The China Inland Mission at one time the largest missionary society in China reorganized itself as the Overseas Missionaries Fellowship and located its headquarters in Hong Kong to continue
its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own bishops without papal authority while the Catholics loyal to
the Vatican began to conduct underground services of their own thus splitting the Catholics in China. One of the matters of contention is whether or not Beijing or the Vatican
had the authority to ordain bishops, control the finances of the Catholic Church and allow abortions among other things. In 2000, relationships between Beijing and the Vatican were further torn
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