Communist party-Vatican interplay over the training of church leaders in China

The Catholic Church could not compromise with Communist states due to ideol ogical incompatibility between atheist Marxism-Leninism and religious belie fs. Christianity, in the perception of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), h ad been closely linked with "foreign cultural imperialism." This Study exam ines the clash of authority between the CCP and Catholic Church over semina ry training, elucidating the CCP's desire to retain institutional and ideol ogical control over this particular sector of Chinese society. The findings highlight the ideological conflict between the dialectic materialism of th e CCP, combined with the economic materialism (i.e., to get rich is gloriou s) mentality of the Deng Xiaoping-Jiang Zemin era, and religious idealism.