From: Steve Wingate
Subject: SNET: China blasts Vatican, calls new saints criminals
Date: 3 Oct 2000 00:07:37 -0400
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China blasts Vatican, calls new saints criminals
By CHARLES HUTZLER, Associated Press
BEIJING (October 2, 2000 4:15 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
China accused the pope Monday of making saints of sinful Catholics,
countering the Vatican's canonization of 120 martyrs to Chinese religious
persecution with a list of their alleged crimes.
State-controlled media released the most detailed accusations against the
canonized Catholics in two weeks of escalating rhetoric against the
Vatican. The accusations included the first specific attacks on some of the
87 Chinese converts, who on Sunday became the country's first saints.
China had earlier leveled specific attacks against some of the 33 foreign
missionaries canonized Sunday.
Among those singled out by the Xinhua News Agency was Ioannes
Baptista Luo Ting-yin, identified by the Vatican as John Baptist Lo, killed in
1861. Xinhua alleged that he beat a group of children outside a church in
the southern city of Guiyang because he thought "their happy folk songs
were an insult to God."
"China's history books are evidence that there were numerous crimes
committed by foreign missionaries," Xinhua said. "But the Vatican not only
refuses to repent to the Chinese people, but also goes so far as to distort
history by beatifying their monstrous criminal deeds."
Pope John Paul II, who performed the canonization, on Monday praised the
new saints' refusal to bow to "ferocious persecution" while acknowledging
that some may have made mistakes.
"If there were - and is man ever free of defects? - we ask forgiveness,"
John Paul said, speaking to pilgrims who attended Sunday's ceremony in
Rome.
The row over the saints has threatened recent attempts to end the 50-year-
old rift between China and the Vatican. It has reignited prickly Chinese
nationalism and a fascination with the anti-foreign Boxer Uprising of 100
years ago. Eighty-six among the canonized died at the hands of that violent
sect.
Fearful of foreign influence in China, the communists severed ties with the
Vatican in 1951 and set up the China Patriotic Catholic Association to
administer churches and ordain bishops without Rome's approval. While
the state church counts 4 million followers, at least an equal number remain
loyal to the Vatican.
People's Daily, the authoritative newspaper of the ruling Communist Party,
said that by canonizing the 120 on Sunday - China's National Day and the
51st anniversary of communist rule - the Vatican "seriously hurt the feelings
of the Chinese people."
Leaders of the state-run Catholic and Protestant churches attended a
symposium Monday "to oppose the Vatican's canonization of so-called
'saints,'" China Central Television reported.
Xinhua grouped the new saints into three categories: foreign missionaries
who helped foreign powers "invade and pillage China," their Chinese
Catholic "henchmen," and converts killed by Chinese trying to drive out the
foreigners.
Many of the charges cataloged by Xinhua and People's Daily are long
acknowledged by Western historians: missionaries took part in the opium
trade and helped foreign governments trying to carve China into spheres of
influence in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
"They sold opium, collected intelligence, participated in invasion, plotted in
drafting unequal treaties. All in all, nobody can cover up their sins and
crimes," People's Daily said in an editorial to be published Tuesday and
read aloud on state television Monday night.
Among the better known examples raised by Xinhua is the case of Auguste
Chapdelaine. He preached in an inland county in 1855, violating an 1844
treaty with France that allowed proselytizing in certain port cities, and was
put to death. France used the execution to launch military campaigns
against China.
Lesser known were the cases of Aldericus Crescitelli, killed in the Boxer
Uprising, and Franciscus de Capillas, executed by a court in 1648. Xinhua
accused them of rape, adultery and extortion.
"These missionaries looted, raped and humiliated to such a degree that up
to now the residents in the very dioceses still hate them," People's Daily
said. "These missionaries are not saints, nor martyrs. Instead they are out-
and-out sinners."
In recent years the Vatican has apologized for a host of historical wrongs -
the Crusades and the Inquisition - and tried to reconcile with Jews, the
newspaper said. "But it failed to express any remorse for the crimes it has
committed against the Chinese."
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