>>603023
>The Vatican is simply paying lip service to a dying regime while doing their own thing within China.
You have no proof of this. For all intents and purposes, it looks as if the Catholic Church is caving into the demands of the Communist Party of China. Even if there is some underhanded strategy in play here (which is a problem of its own), the decision itself is horribly scandalizing.
This is not how the early Church did it. When faced with persecution, they chose to die or hide rather than give in. I don't see how any other choice is remotely acceptable, especially from the Church that claims to be the direct descendant of those early martyrs.