Memorándum de Antoine Cotta, C.M. (Misionero Apostólico) sobre la situación de las misiones en China dirigido al Cardenal SERAFINI, Prefecto de la Congregación de Propaganda Fide, 6 de febrero de 1917
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Antoine Cotta ingresó en la Congregación de la Misión en 1891. Su memorándum, dirigido al cardenal Serafini en 1917, aboga por la inclusión del clero chino en el episcopado para hacer frente a la dependencia de la Iglesia en China de los misioneros europeos. Este memorándum pretendía promover el acceso del clero chino al episcopado, apoyándose en razones extraídas de papas, obispos y otros. En su opinión, la práctica de su época se oponía a dicho acceso. Cotta critica el «colonialismo espiritual» de las misiones chinas y subraya la desconexión entre las directrices papales y las prácticas de las misiones dirigidas por extranjeros, que a menudo tratan al clero chino como auxiliares y no como líderes. Cotta sostiene que los cristianos chinos deben desarrollar una Iglesia autosuficiente para prosperar, subrayando que la dependencia de los recursos y el liderazgo europeos obstaculiza el crecimiento y la autenticidad del catolicismo chino. Hace referencia a varios documentos papales que apoyan la formación de un clero nativo independiente, e insta a la Iglesia a capacitar a los sacerdotes chinos para que asuman funciones eclesiásticas plenas. Este memorándum es importante porque inspiró la decisión del Papa Pío XI de ordenar los primeros obispos chinos en 1926, lo que marcó un punto de inflexión para la Iglesia católica en China.
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Ferreux, Octave. 2022.The History of the Congregation of the Mission in China, 1699—1950, trans. Hippolyte Henk De Cuijper, C.M., Appendix 5: Vincent Lebbe, “The Thunder that Sings in the Distance,” p. 621; Hyde Park, New York.
Rybolt, John E. 2015.The Vincentians. A General History of the Congregation of the Mission, 6A: Internationalization and Aggiornamento (1919-1980), Hyde Park, New York, 2015, pp. 53—55.
Soetens, Claude. 1997. L'Église catholique en Chine au XXe siècle, Paris, Beauchesne, 1997.
Soetens, Claude. 1982. “Recueil des Archives Vincent Lebbe. Pour l’église Chinoise: I. La Visite apostolique des missions de Chine 1919-1920” Cahiers de la Revue Theologique de Louvain, n. 5, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982. Book review by J. Hong.
Young, Ernest P. 2013. Chapter 8: Petitioning Rome, in Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate, pp. 171–184. Oxford University Press.
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