Posted on 03/21/2018 4:36:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
The redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen has denounced proponents of an “imminent” accord between China and the Vatican, saying that the Church is setting itself up for a major disaster.
The present historical reality we face in China is that of “a tiny flock being persecuted by a gigantic atheist power,” Zen said in a March 19 essay, and a Vatican capitulation to the terms of President Xi Jinping is the equivalent of “surrender,” something the Church has no reason to do.
“Why surrender?” Zen asks. “Doesn’t the Vatican see that many churches survive in the underground community, such as in Hebei and Fujian?”
“Doesn’t the Vatican know that in cities like Shanghai, many priests celebrate Sunday Mass in private homes for their faithful? There is still a certain degree of freedom for the ‘birds outside the cage.’ But now things are going to change. The Vatican is coming to help the Government to push everybody into the cage,” he added.
In his essay, Cardinal Zen was responding to several recent articles critical of his position and supportive of full integration with the government-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, a church set up by the communist party in 1957 as an alternative to the Church of Rome.
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In the above statement, one could replace "China" with "the Vatican" and it would still be true.
Then Grasshopper..knowing everything is “fake” would be a truth.
America sure has its own fakeness.
*** the Church is setting itself up for a major disaster. ***
I think that happened on March 13, 2013.
Such kind of Cardinal gives Vatican a bad name in China.
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