Underground Chinese Bishop’s Death Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Compromise
Catholic News Agency reports the October 29, 2025 death of Julius Jia Zhiguo, described as an “underground Chinese Catholic bishop” of Zhengding Diocese. The article portrays him as enduring persecution from Chinese authorities since 1963, including forced labor and repeated arrests up to 2020. It quotes his statement: “My life consists of speaking about Jesus… every single day is dedicated to telling others about Jesus” while highlighting his alleged communion with Rome and missionary activities.
Illegitimacy of Post-Conciliar Episcopal Claims
The so-called consecration by Fan Xueyan raises immediate canonical problems. Xueyan received episcopal orders in 1959 under Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), but any exercise of jurisdiction after 1958 occurs outside the Church’s divine constitution. As Pius XII declared in Mystici Corporis (1947): “They who refuse to be subject to the authority of Peter and his legitimate successors have no part in this spiritual unity which is the Church”. The article’s claim of “maintaining communion with Rome” constitutes theological fraud when “Rome” signifies the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican.
Naturalism Disguised as Martyrdom
The portrayal of Zhiguo’s sufferings focuses exclusively on political persecution while omitting any supernatural dimension of martyrdom. True Catholic martyrdom requires “death endured for the faith or for some Christian virtue” (St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei). The article reduces his ordeal to human rights violations rather than confessional fidelity against state-mandated apostasy. This reflects the conciliar sect’s systematic denial of extra ecclesiam nulla salus, condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): Proposition 17 rejects hope for salvation outside the Church.
Ecclesiological Deception in Terminology
The term “underground Church” constitutes semantic sleight-of-hand. As Pius XII established in Mystici Corporis, Christ’s true Church is “visibly recognizable by certain distinctive marks” including submission to legitimate pastors. The underground structures remain part of the conciliar sect through their recognition of antipopes. The article’s reference to “communion with Rome” proves this, as true Catholics recognize only the Sede Vacante since Pius XII’s death. St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be pope” (De Romano Pontifice), which extends to those recognizing modernist usurpers.
Sacramental Nullity in Chinese Context
The article ignores the sacramental crisis created by Paul VI’s invalid new rites. Zhiguo’s 1980 ordination likely occurred using the Pontificalis Romani rite, declared doubtful by Cardinal Ottaviani’s 1968 Intervention. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis established that any alteration to sacramental form invalidates orders. When the article states Zhiguo was “ordained a priest in 1980 by Bishop Fan Xueyan,” it conceals the near-certain invalidity of both minister and rite under conciliar reforms.
Modernist Reduction of Mission
Zhiguo’s quoted statement – “My life consists of speaking about Jesus” – reveals the conciliar sect’s naturalization of evangelization. Contrast this with Pius XI’s definition of Christ’s kingship: “He must reign in our minds… our wills… our hearts… and our bodies” (Quas Primas, 1925). The reduction of Catholic mission to “speaking about Jesus” while omitting His social kingship constitutes apostasy from the Syllabus of Errors‘ condemnation of religious indifferentism (Proposition 15). True Catholic evangelization demands submission of all nations to Christ the King, not private “Jesus talk” tolerated by atheist regimes.
Pseudo-Persecution Narrative
The article’s focus on Zhiguo’s arrests serves the conciliar sect’s victimization cult while obscuring China’s true persecution: the systematic destruction of Catholic faith through the state-sanctioned “Patriotic Church.” As the Syllabus condemns (Proposition 39), the Chinese regime embodies the error that “the State is the source of all rights.” Yet the conciliar sect’s 2018 agreement with Beijing legitimized this persecuting power, betraying true underground Catholics. Zhiguo’s reported 2020 arrest occurred after this treasonous pact, exposing the conciliar sect’s collaboration with China’s persecution machinery.
Canonical and Theological Fraud
Vatican News’ Chinese-language site becomes the article’s source for Zhiguo’s biography – the same propaganda arm that promotes Francis’ synodal heresies. This demonstrates the underground Church’s absorption into the conciliar sect’s media apparatus. The article’s closing appeal for donations to “report the truth” constitutes blasphemy when CNA operates under EWTN, which recognizes antipopes. As St. Paul commands: “A man that is a heretic… avoid” (Titus 3:10).
Source:
Underground Chinese bishop who said his life ‘consists of speaking about Jesus’ dies at 90 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025