What happened?
The president of the state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) has said that “Love for the homeland must be greater than the love for the Church,” according to Asia News.
Speaking at a state-sponsored meeting in Beijing, Bishop John Fang Xingyao also said that “the law of the country is above canon law”.
Why was it under-reported?
There is too much bad news from China for news sources to report it all – and the significance of these remarks may not have been clear, compared to the more vivid news of persecution.
