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Catholicism exists and is heavily regulated in China. The CCP (unsurprisingly) appoints the bisbops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_China htt
by starfallg 6y ago
Catholicism exists and is heavily regulated in China. The CCP (unsurprisingly) appoints the bisbops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_China
- k__ 6y ago"the Chinese government established the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association,[2] which rejects the authority of the Holy See" What about Jesus? lol
- netsharc 6y agoYou kid, but I'd say humans disagreeing about what the man (and his boy) in the sky thinks has been the source of millennia of conflict...
- raxxorrax 6y agoEvery Lutheran christian rejects their authority too.
- k__ 6y agoThat's why I find this even funnier. What is left of the catholic church if you reject the pope? Protestants
- dragonwriter 6y ago> What is left of the catholic church if you reject the pope? > Protestants I think you mean “Eastern Orthodox”, as they both were rejecting the primacy (at least, in the terms Catholics define it) of the Pope long before Protestants existed and remain closer to the Roman Catholics on most points other than the primacy of the Pope than Protestants, who reject a lot more about Catholicism than the role of the Pope.