Barolin: The meeting between the Bible and China, coexisons between different peoples

Vatican News

“With his view of faith, Father Antonio picked up and helps us to capture all the ease of human greatness in the journey line of the Chinese people and civilization over time.” It is a corridor from the PITRO Parolin Foreign Minister to the Book of the Priest and Priest Antonio Sergianni, Cavalcata Del Vangelo in CINA. After the effects of Father Matteo Richie (Edizioni La Conchiglia Di Santiago, San Miniato, PISA). The book is a beautiful and emotional testimony about the Christian adventure in China, and the implementation of their own confrontations with Chinese bishops, priests and Catholics.

Father Sergiani, 84, entered the spiritual son of Divo Barsotti, as a young man at the Pappery Institute of Foreign Missions (PIME) and ordered frankly in 1965. Then he followed the affairs of the Catholic Church in China as an officer in the group to preach peoples, today Dicastery for preaching.

“There are many ways to look at China. It is a Christian project – Cardinal writes – Look at China in the light of the word of God. “

“Nor is it perfect determined to imagine and build alternative worlds. In the same way that he realizes that the kingdom of God “is not from this world, which passes the personality of” Paul VI, the doctrine of God’s people), faith in Christ Jesus, such as “side effects”, with grace and humility, can make our view of the world’s things more clear and penetrated. It can make us with a dynamic realism that is ignored by geopolitical analyzes, factors that are not considered by economic readings that do not usually have the expectations of greatness and goodness that vibrate mysteriously in stories and in the lives of peoples.

“With his view of faith, Father Antonio – Supiaia Parolin – picks us up to capture all human greatness in the functioning of the Chinese people and civilization over time. A rotating bone, a kind of mystery of history, with the continuity of Million, which seems to pass and overcome Cesuras between historical times. An unprecedented human assembly, from its writings and forms of social organization, which always attributes to its powers the task of mediation and ensuring a balance between the community of men and the natural order. A fact that inherited from the Confucian traditions, condemning its global mission, centralization and the power of attracting its civilization, which now appears with new ingenuity in the global scene, which raises various reactions, which move from admiration to insomnia, and hostility to sympathy.

With his view of faith, Father Antonio travels all the historical clips that were characterized by confronting the declaration of Christ with China, from the arrival of the Chinese soil of the monks of the former Church, in the early centuries of Christianity, to this day. With historical clarity and at the same time with the participation of the movement, the author follows the gold thread of the confrontations between the “mystery” of China and the Christian ambiguity that took place in this long adventure. The golden thread that failed in mysterious circumstances and new beginnings, lost opportunities and free resets, and the grace and moments of grace. Where each clip appears as a deposit and promised a great thing about to reveal. Indeed, not yet. ”

“Specifically to see the faith and his love for the Chinese Catholics, Father Antonio also documents the objective and objective of the Popes and the Apostolic headquarters for Church affairs in China.” The documents collected – add the Cardinal – by Father Sergian in the supplement of the volume is a valuable and useful tool for those who want to go objectively and at the same time enthusiastic about the main clips of the unparalleled road to the Chinese Catholic society in recent decades, based on the declaration of the popular republic.