Chinese Catholics attend their first Sunday mass since Pope Francis I took the helm of the Roman Catholic Church.<br /> <br />At Beijing's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, worshippers are hopeful the new pope will heal divisions between catholics in China and the state.<br /> <br />China and the Vatican broke off diplomatic ties in 1949 after the Communist Party came to power.<br /> <br />And Chinese Catholics are divided between a church sanctioned by the communist state that has installed bishops without Vatican approval and an "underground" wing.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) RETIRED SOLDIER, MARCO SHAO SAYING:<br /> <br />"China's Catholic church and the new pope in Rome need to work hard together to create a harmonious Catholic Church. There is only one Catholicism. I wish that Catholicism would not be split. What is Chinese Catholicism? There is only one Catholicism."<br /> <br />China's Foreign Ministry earlier this week renewed calls on the Vatican to end diplomatic relations with self-ruled Taiwan -
