Oriental Archbishop Pommerson is in the right direction to promote the sinicization of the Church. This is not something that the Holy See or the dioceses need to discuss.

In the process of actual promotion, the promulgation of the "Work Plan for Actively Promoting the Sinicization of the Oriental Diocese" has greatly promoted the development of the cause of God in the Eastern Diocese, so both the Holy See and I should highly affirm this. —Pope Paul V (47th year of Wanli, 1619 AD)

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"There is a saying in China that everything must be established in advance, and there are no rules. Therefore, in my capacity as the Archbishop of the Diocese of the East, I would like to formulate and implement this work plan, hoping that all the clergy of the Diocese of the East will strictly abide by this rule, and through your efforts, you will step by step promote the grand project of Sinicization of the Diocese of the East, so that the people of every country in the East, including the Ming Dynasty, can truly feel the gospel brought by the Church. ”

In the process of Wei's father-in-law's speech, Cui Yingyuan led several fans to put a bound plan on the table of each participant.

Xu Guangqi curiously picked up this planning plan, and found that the first page was written by Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, approved by Pope Paul V, and Archbishop Pang Maichen of the East was in charge.

"The Pope had high hopes for the Diocese of the East, and he wrote to me a letter in which I was moved, shocked, and even more excited. What's that? ”

Gonggong Wei slowly glanced at the clergy and representatives of believers who were concentrating on the plan in their hands. The representatives of the believers knew Chinese characters, and the precondition for those clergy to come to China was that they had to master Chinese, so the plan was not difficult to understand.

"Whoever wins the East wins the world!"

Gonggong Wei said very excitedly, and then emphasized that this planning plan for the sinicization of the Eastern diocese of the Catholic Church is of epochal significance and has never been seen before in the history of Catholicism.

"An overall, comprehensive, and meticulous work plan is a powerful guide and tool for implementing the direction of the sinicization of the church!"

"Every clergyman in the Eastern Diocese will be given a plan, not for me, the archbishop, to know about it, but for God to know about it!"

Wei Gonggong emphasized that in the process of implementing the sinicization of the Church, the Eastern Diocese will set up a leading group with Archbishop Tapangmaichen as the core, which will integrate the clerical strength and resources of the dioceses under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Diocese, establish the main guiding ideology, and clarify the important steps, specific measures and basic guarantees needed to achieve the goal.

"Obviously, our dioceses in the East are quite scattered, there has been no unified leadership, and the clergy of the churches in various countries are scattered like sand, in the old Chinese saying, fighting on their own, so that they can easily be broken by the enemy. Therefore, there is great necessity and urgency for the establishment of this leading group of the Eastern Church! .....”

After describing the importance of the leading group, Wei Gonggong suddenly made a decision, that is, to immediately ban the Jesuit societies scattered in China, Japan, Luzon, Siam and other countries, and the Jesuit societies that had been banned in various places were immediately unified under the responsibility of the leading group of the Eastern Diocese, and the appointment power of the president and relevant clergy was also unified under the leading group.

Starting this year, the Jesuits of all dioceses will come to China in batches to undergo special examinations by members of the leading group, and only those who have excellent grades can continue to stay in their posts, and those who fail to meet the requirements have only two choices: one is to participate in the training courses specially organized by the Eastern Diocese; The second is to pack up your things and go back to Europe.

If neither path is chosen, then the unqualified clergyman will no longer be recognized by the Eastern Diocese, which means that he will lose his salary, subsidies and a range of benefits from the church.

As soon as this order was announced, it immediately caused an uproar among the clergy present.

"Your Excellency, the Holy See will not agree to this!"

The first to stand up against His Excellency Pommaison was the deacon of Nantang, Fu Xunji from Portugal.

Before coming to China, Fu Xunji had been studying the teachings of the Western philosopher Aristotle in Europe. After coming to China, his main job was to translate the teachings of Aristotle.

The deacon is the official who is specifically responsible for the affairs of the church in addition to the "Seventh Order of Sacred Goods", and is also the seventh order. Fu Xunji was the lowliest junior deacon, but he had the support of Long Huamin, the Jesuit president in China, so he could fight against the Nantang bishop Xiong Sanba.

Sometimes, Xiong Sanba had to endure him, because Fu Xunji controlled the funds given to Nantang by the Jesuits. The reason why Guo Jujing and others left Beijing and went south had a lot to do with the "difficulty" of this Deacon Fu.

Archbishop Pang Maison wants to ban the Jesuits in various places, and the subtext is that the president of Macao, Long Huamin, will no longer hold the power of the Chinese church, so as a clergyman of Long Huamin's faction, Fu Xunji naturally wants to stand up against it.

Fu Xunji was followed by two missionaries from Billier, who were already dissatisfied with the appointment of a purple-clothed archbishop from an Oriental to the church, and were forced to recognize the authority of the archbishop under pressure from the Holy See and the Pope.

But now the archbishop of the Oriental face could not help but say that his unreasonable, almost barbaric deprivation of the powers of the Jesuits everywhere had shocked the two Bishli clergy, who could not accept this foolish decision.

As believers in God, as one of the few Western clergy in the Eastern Diocese, they have reason and right to stand up and protest.

"Who else is dissatisfied?"

Archbishop Pommaison was not surprised that someone dared to speak out against his decision, but took it for granted.

Reform is not a dinner party.

Even in the church, the Reformation is also about profit.

God, too, eats, drinks, Lazar, and sleeps.

Xiong Sanba, the de facto head of Nantang, did not come forward, because his friends Guo Jujing and Jinnige made it clear in their letters to him that the new Chinese purple-clothed archbishop was unusual and was a person who could directly influence the emperor of China.

Therefore, both the Holy See and the Pope himself have high hopes for this Archbishop Pommerson and fully support him.

This means that all clergy in the Eastern Diocese are to submit unconditionally to His Excellency Archbishop Pommaison.

This is a red line that cannot be crossed.

None of the representatives of the faithful dared to stand up against Archbishop Pommerson, because Archbishop Pommerson had another identity - the grand eunuch in the palace.

The rest of the clergy were completely unprepared for this sudden situation, and most of them were watching Bishop Xiong's choice. Finding that Bishop Xiong did not support Fu Xunji and the three, these clergy immediately remained silent.

Xu Guangqi and others rarely saw the scene of the battle in the church, and they all said that it was very fresh. But what made them even fresher was the plan for the sinification of Catholicism in their hands.

"It's not a counsel, it's a command. You can object, but you must do it unconditionally. The reform plan for the sinicization of the Church was approved by the Pope, and if you oppose the reform, you are against the Pope, an enemy of the Church, and a traitor to God! ”

Archbishop Pang Maichen angrily pointed at the three clergy who dared to challenge his authority, and more than a dozen brocade guards wearing flying fish suits immediately rushed up and pushed the three to the ground.

Seeing this, Bishop Xiong Sanba immediately stood up angrily and protested: "Your Excellency, the affairs of the church should not be interfered with by the Chinese government!" ”

"Xiong, you are wrong, they are not the official forces of China, but the saints of our church!"

Archbishop Pang Maichen gently pointed to the planning plan in Father Xiong Sanba's hand, "Xiong, look at Article 9, it is clearly written that from now on, our Eastern Diocese will form a God's Guard, and the name of this guard is Saint Seiya. ”