Vatican angry about another ordination
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The Vatican criticized China for ordaining its third bishop this year without papal approval, calling the move the latest in a “series of extremely grave acts” that caused Pope Benedict XVI “great sorrow.”
China’s government-backed Chinese Patriotic Catholic Assn. ordained Wang Renlei, vicar-general of the Xuzhou diocese in Jiangsu province.
Beijing broke ties with the Vatican in 1951 after the communists took power and set up a separate Catholic church.
The Vatican said the ordinations “offend the religious sentiment of every Catholic in China and in the rest of the world.”
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