“Sinicization” Is Not Inculturation

What inculturation is not is what is happening in China today.

Under the iron rule of the dictator Xi Jinping, the religious policy of the People’s Republic of China is “Sinicization.” The gullible or duplicitous regard this as simply another form of inculturation. “Sinicization” is anything but that: It’s the perverse inversion of inculturation, rightly understood. 

Catholic faith in China must be conformed to “Xi Jinping Thought”; it must not temper, much less correct, the official state ideology.