Catholic Church
Regarding some roumers that said that catholic church’s in Vietnam are an "underground" church that haven’t acknowledge by Vatican… I’m curious about this issue until last easter, I Incidentally met an Indonesian missionary (pasteur) here in HCMC, He ha sbeen posted here for the last 3 month. So i asked him about this particular issue…
Here’s the answer: It’s not true! catholic church’s in Vietnam are acknowledge by Vatican in fact they do have a cardinal here in Vietnam named Cardinal Pham Minh Man which apointed by the Pope himself and approved by the Vietnamese goverment. But all the foreign missionary in Vietnam are not acknowledge by the Vietnamese goverment.
But there’s still a debate and some issues regarding to the catholic church’s in China. They are seperated into two. One is the "underground" church and the other one is the "nationalist" church. Both are catholic churchs, but they do have some problems between them, they do hate each other and both of them claims to be the original catholic church… which both haven’t acknowledged by the vatican. The Nationalist church is the church that are devoted to the Chinese goverment even during the "communism era" on the other hand, the underground church are the one who claims to stick to the vatican rules and declines communism. Till now, the Vatican still haven’t decide which one to be ackowledged… until then… all the church in China are not the "real" catholic church.
