Posted on 06/14/2020 3:49:01 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Vatican’s negotiations with China have not just done little to empower Catholics in the country, but actively imperiled Catholic clergy. The Vatican must do all within its power to save those victims of its mistakes.
For over five years, the Vatican and Chinese Communist Party negotiated back and forth to hammer out an agreement about the appointment and validity of Catholic Bishops in Communist China. Since 1957, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) created and imposed a faux Catholic Patriotic Church with its own seminaries, priests, churches and bishops chosen by the party. Today, Chinese Catholics are divided between this two-tiered system: the underground Church, faithful to the Vatican and Magisterium, and the Patriotic Church of the CCP. Pope Francis’ Vatican waded into this political and religious maelstrom. Francis was way over his head.
It is painfully obvious that the give and take resulted in more, rather than less, religious persecution for Catholics and Christians in China. The Vatican gave everything away and got nothing in return; the Communists Chinese took everything and gave nothing. They not only secured apostolic power from the Holy See – they finagled papal silence over the dastardly deeds of the CCP. No wonder the details of the pact are still kept secret!
Nowhere is this clearer than in the cases of two religious prisoners, Catholics taken away for challenging the fraudulent CCP Catholic “church.”
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Perhaps if a petition documenting the ongoing atrocities in China against Catholics, other Christians and religious minorities is humbly presented to Pope Francis for consideration, he might abrogate his unfortunate agreement with the godless, brutal communists.
Francis was given one assignment from his master: complete the destruction of the Catholic Church and advance the cause of secular humanism.
Doubtful.
Does anyone really think the Pope will try to reverse any part of an agreement he is so proud of? It’s not like he was not warned of these consequences in advance. Smart people like him hardly ever admit to being stupid.
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