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THE PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COMMUNIST CHINA By Theresa Marie Moreau Benedictine monk, Brother Peter, was arrested on November 7, 1955, because he was a Roman Catholic and refused to register with the Communist-created and controlled "Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association." Brother Peter was tortured and subsequently sentenced in a so-called "trial," without a lawyer or a jury, to 20 years in a Communist prison. He suffered 26 years in prison and was tortured during most of those years. ====================================== BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COMMUNIST CHINA By Theresa Marie Moreau Religious and personal freedom for the people of China began to disintegrate back in 1949 (after the end of the three-year Chinese Nationalist-Communist Civil War that followed in the wake of World War II), when the Communists (headed by Mao Tse-Tung) defeated the Kuomintang -- the Chinese Nationalist Party (headed by Chiang Kai-Shek) that fled to Taiwan (historically known as Formosa). On October 1, 1949, the Tyrant Mao stood in Tiananmen Square and announced the founding of the People's Republic of China -- with himself the head of the beast. In an attempt to destroy the Catholic Church in China, in 1949 the atheistic Communists invented the "Three-Self Reform Movement," so-called for its aim forcing Catholics to break with the Holy See. Relations with the Vatican were halted, and then officially broken in 1951 after Mao rudely expelled the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Riberi. But Mao discovered that his "official" puppet group wasn't catching on; that the underground Catholic Church continued to live and flourish. For the next couple years, the Reds rounded up and expelled all foreign-born clergy and religious. Next, they began arresting and imprisoning Chinese priests and religious. Then the laity. Make no mistake. This brutality continues to this day. On July 15, 1957, the Three-Self Reform Movement was replaced by and integrated into the puppet "Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association." To be patriotic in Red-controlled China means to be a godless revolutionary. To be faithful to the Pope, regarded as an imperialist power, is considered a counterrevolutionary act. Why does Beijing attempt to force its atheism upon Catholics? Speculation rests on the argument that the Communists want to have the underground Church clutched tightly in their five-starred fists before establishing diplomatic relations with the Vatican. According to "Document 26" issued by the Secretariat of Party Central on August 17, 1999, "The normalization of China-Vatican relations offers a beneficial opportunity to solve the problem of the underground Catholic forces. If we can use this opportunity.. to win the majority of the underground Catholic forces over to our side, to convert them, then a key link in Party Central's strategic plan will be realized... The plan is: Positively struggle, treating each case differently, to convert the majority and to isolate the minority...making the leading authority in our country's Catholic Church to be always in the hands of the patriotic forces. Distinguish the different circumstances of each underground bishop and priest, and deal with them accordingly." Long-term mission: Force the unofficial, illegal, underground Church into the official, legal, aboveground church. Short-term mission: Behead the dioceses by eliminating the bishops. Without shepherds, the sheep shall perish.