Dr. Clark on Matteo Ricci

Most books and talks about Matteo Ricci suggest that he unequivocally, and without exception, venerated Chinese culture and Chinese people.
--Anthony Clarkhttps://t.co/okI1ltwdGS

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) February 18, 2026

A Dominican Would Say This

The Jesuits were wrong on the Chinese Rites controversy, as the Holy See properly held when first examining the issue. https://t.co/LIkMLOtYlV

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) May 28, 2021

China is Assyrian territory, and the Assyrians did attempt inculturation.

Cardinal Zen

【記香港．專訪】守住香港的榮休主教　89 歲陳日君：我不會走、不可走、不應走https://t.co/BzihfGpq7d

— Stand News 立場新聞 (@StandNewsHK) May 19, 2021

【記香港．陳日君（下）】教廷變色ㅤ陳日君獨力挽狂瀾：我是中國的樞機https://t.co/03XUamp5fH

— Stand News 立場新聞 (@StandNewsHK) May 19, 2021

A Reminder: Confucianism Is Allied to Statism

in practice, if not in spirit, and "imperial Confucianism" is not such a distortion of Confucianism as some modern proponents of contemporary Confucianism make it out to be.

How does the American administrative state look from across the Pacific? In the new @AmericanAffrs, Daniel Bell (@DanielB89913888) puts @Vermeullarmine & @CassSunstein’s Law & Leviathan in dialogue with Han Feizi as well as Confucian political thought 👇 https://t.co/e6d25hj8vO

— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) February 22, 2021

Lord Have Mercy

His Eminence, @CardJosephZen spoke with @NCRegister at length this summer—giving a background to this new article by @EdwardPentin.

“My last act of protest will be to do just that, to now disappear with everyone knowing why.”

Ref: https://t.co/gBLR77KQ2f https://t.co/wN1xgXimbL pic.twitter.com/91npAk4biO

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) January 16, 2021

Chinese law professor Teng Biao, a victim of “severe torture” at the hands of Chinese authorities, said it is “high time for the world to stop appeasing the Chinese government and pay attention to human rights in China.”
https://t.co/eZ3wcJLAL8 @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) January 16, 2021

Bishop Favier in Beijing

The heart of Pekin: Bishop A. Favier's diary of the siege, May-August, 1900 edited by Rev J. Freri

"Re Against Zen"

Sandro Magister: Re Against Zen. Divided By a Wall of China

Eastern Christian Books: Persian Christians at the Chinese Court

Eastern Christian Books: Persian Christians at the Chinese Court

Sandro Magister: Christmas Behind Bars In China, For the Martyrs of the Free Press

Fr. Paul Mariani, SJ on the China Situation

The Extremely High Stakes of the China-Vatican Deal

Fr. Rutler on the China Situation

Crisis: A Nursery Rhyme Pope Francis Would Do Well to Read by FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER

Breitbart: World View: University of N. Florida and Pentagon Cut Ties with China’s Confucius Institutes

Two Chinese Bishops to Go to the Synod?

Sandro Magister, In the Match with the Vatican, China Calls the Shots

The Latest Vatican-China Development

Vatican Press Office announces a ‘Provisional Agreement’ between China and the Holy See, the beginning of a process, says Greg Burke
The Provisional Agreement concerns the appointment of bishops. The Global Times today cited China’s Foreign Ministry, which denied the presence in Beijing of a Vatican delegation. China’s leadership appears divided on the matter. The goal of this “accord is not political but pastoral”.

The excommunication of seven illegitimate bishops lifted, the new Diocese of Chengde established for Mgr Guo Jincai

Card Parolin on the importance of the agreement between China and the Holy See on the appointment of bishops

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs unaware of any visiting Vatican delegation by Wang Zhicheng

Card Pietro Parolin also appears to have distanced himself from any imminent agreement on episcopal appointments. Mgr Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, praises China, calling it an influential power that respects human dignity and the planet. For him, the critics of the Sino-Vatican agreement are "a little minority", loud “but there are not very many of them.”


Card Zen on the China-Vatican agreement: Saying nothing in many words by Card. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun

Cdl. Zen calls for Vatican secretary of state Parolin to ‘resign’ over ‘betrayal’ in China deal

Provisional agreement between China and Holy See raises many questions, highlights tensions by Christopher R. Altieri
The central question is whether the Church can trust this Chinese government, and whether Chinese Catholics can trust this Papal administration not to give away the store.

What if...

The Assyrians had been successful in evangelizing China?

Pravoslavie: Burial of Nestorian Christians Discovered in China