An excerpt from the book 'An Unbelievable Life' by Theresa Marie Moreau
"In the quiet moments of one day, Matthew picked up a book of collected essays and thumbed through the pages, stopping at a very short piece, 'Why We Open Church' (Patriotic Church)
Paragraph after paragraph, he read of how after the takeover, in China by the Communists, they worked to destroy the Roman Catholic Church.
However, all their efforts proved futile to extinguish the faith.
Instead they only succeeded in pushing the faithful underground.
But after Hsiao-Ping ascended to power in the 1970s, following Mao's death in 1976, the authorities devised another plan: to open patriotic Churches in order to bring the underground Churches above ground.
Then ... as the Communists reasoned ... they would be able to destroy the Catholics."
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