The campaign is spreading to Hong Kong
by a former leader of the Catholic church in Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He said it would legitimise the Communist Party’s control over Chinese Catholics, and be like “giving the flock into the mouths of the wolves”. The flock has not yet been devoured, but the authorities have indeed been tightening their grip over it.
But pressure has also grown on China’s 12m Catholics. In 2018 the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees the state-approved Catholic church in China, launched a “five-year work plan” to promote sinicisation of the church. Like similar plans involving the other faiths, this one aims to ensure that the party’s doctrine is given prominence. The clergy are required to attend study sessions to make sure they know about the party’s history and Mr Xi’s ideology and accomplishments.
China has been intensifying pressure on underground clergy to register with the authorities. Some objectors have reportedly been arrested. “The party goes around and tells underground priests: the pope has negotiated with us. They use the Vatican as an excuse to force underground priests to register,” says a priest from Hong Kong who has fled the city. He calls the deal “a slap in the face of the persecuted”.
There are already signs that the sinicisation campaign is spreading into the territory, which has several hundred thousand Catholics. A year ago the office of the mainland government in Hong Kong organised an online meeting between Chinese bishops and Hong Kong’s Catholic leaders. They discussed sinicisation but kept the meeting private. This month 50 scholars and clergy from all over China, including Hong Kong, held a conference on sinicising Catholicism. This one was publicly announced.
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