Controversy over Chinese Rites

So far contacts between our church and the Chinese have been handled exclusively by the Jesuits. In order to approach the Chinese the order has learnt their customs, their language and in general tried to be a part of Chinese society.\nWith the arrival of Dominicans and Franciscans in China, however, disturbing reports have begun to reach us. It seems the Jesuits are tolerating a very high degree of non-Christian rituals among the supposedly converted Chinese. The other orders are abhorred by the Jesuit conduct and by their supposedly Christian converts and have urged us to make a clear statement that the Chinese Ancestor rites have no place among Christians and that anyone who wishes to join our Church must abandon such things.