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A Profession of Faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

John Tong Che-Tche
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Mary, conceived without sin, Mediatrix of all Grace, pray for us.

Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, pray for us. (He bowed to the portrait of President Mao, and then to the audience.)

High authorities of the Government, high dignitaries of the Church, faithful Christians, gentlemen:

The subject of this discourse will be: the sacrifice I am making of myself to the two supreme powers.

People who do not believe in the existence of God, nor in the soul, who do not recognise the Pope as the representative of Jesus Christ, nor the Catholic hierarchy, say that the movement for for triple is a purely patriotic movement. They recognise the liberty of the Catholic faith, they agree that there can be relation of a purely religious nature between the faithful and the Pope.

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Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 6 , Issue 67 , January 1952 , pp. 281 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Triple autonomy ‘in administration, finance and doctrine', claimed for the new Church is the programme of a movement of'reform’ inspired and encouraged bt the Communist authorities. Supposed to have been begun by a group of Christians in northern Szechwan in December 1950, it has published its declaration in all the news-paper in the country (February). It claims to be open alike to Catholics and Protestants. Under the pretext of cleansing the Church from imperialism, it is in fact an attempt at a schismatic Church subject to the secular power.