BEIJING (AP) — China plans to ordain a pope-approved bishop
Wednesday, but the Vatican and the Chinese government-controlled
Catholic church are fighting over the guest list.
The ordination
of Peter Luo Xuegang as coadjutor bishop of Yibin diocese has the
blessing of the Vatican, a recent point of agreement in its decades-long
rift with the state-backed church. The source of friction this time is
the possible presence of an excommunicated bishop at the ceremony.
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