Posted on 08/05/2020 6:39:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican mute amid communist persecution
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A top U.K. human rights advocate is condemning Pope Francis' silence on religious persecution in China.
In a July 29 foreign policy op-ed, Catholic convert Benedict Rogers, co-founder and chair of Hong Kong Watch, lamented the lack of protest from the Vatican:
It is Francis's silence that shocks me most. Almost every Sunday, as he prays the Angelus, he rightly references some injustice somewhere in the world. He has spoken often in the past not only of the persecution of Christians around the world but of the plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar; the conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and Nigeria; and religious freedom for all. One country — and one country alone — is noticeable by its absence in his prayers and statements: China.
Rogers noted that Francis has been silent on the persecution of Catholics since September 2018, when he agreed to recognize communist-approved bishops.
"Two years ago, the Vatican made a deal with Beijing that bought the pope's silence," Rogers asserted. "His silence speaks to the dangers of the deal made with China by the Vatican — and demands that others in the church speak out."
"When I say 'bought,' I am not suggesting impropriety," Rogers, an admirer of the pontiff, clarified. "I love this pope and his focus on mercy and forgiveness. On almost every other matter, and I write as a Catholic who converted seven years ago ... I agree with Francis."
"I write not as a hard-line conservative hostile to Francis but rather as someone who loves him but is perplexed by how badly wrong he has gone on China," he added.
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Communists don’t publicly criticize other communists.
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I agree..He is more socialist than freedom loving..He is more atheist than Catholic....
Have to preserve Vatican wealth and power in China.
Sins of omissions.
This dup is a communist and a heretic.
Encounter, accompaniment, blah, blah, blah.
China has bought everybody.
This is the first Third World pope, and definitely an anti-Western pope, so of course he’ll have little in the way of criticism to say about Red China.
Last I heard from Pervert Pope, he was leering about how “Lady Europe needed to be “fertilized” by the Muslim rapists invading it.
The devil has infiltrated the papacy.
Catholics need to pay attention to who is leading them into hell.
A wolf perhaps but incapable of pronouncing false dogmas per Christ’s promise. The Amazon synod was supposed be the door opening for women priests yet Fran essentially slammed it in the lefts face. Thinking, Orthodox Catholics trust the Holy Spirit will continue to lead as He has the last two millennia. I am sickened by the number of Judas’s in the
Church but I know the gates of Hell won’t prevail. Jesus we trust in Thee.
Pray for Pope Francis,
His office has so much influence to so many people and he has surrendered that authority to the godless CCP and evil Xi Jinping
Frankie is nothing more than a lowlife scumbag Marxist thug. Of course he’s going to keep his piehole shut.
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