Originally published at The Catholic Thing
In 2024, China’s faithful were granted little solace under continued state scrutiny and coercion. But then, religious believers in China have never known freedom and stability. If the 1950s and ’60s were an era mostly of state persecution in China, 2024 was a year mostly of state control over the Church. To understand where the Church is and is heading, we must guard against being, as G.K. Chesterton advised, “wrong about the past.”
