no doubt Cardinal Bergoglio feels quite comfortable negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party.
The man clearly has grown up with, and swallowed the platitudes and cliches of collectivism hook, line, and sinker during his days in Argentina.
Much of the western Catholic Church is spiritually moribund at best, morally corrupt at worst. There are still many faithful but they attend Mass in spite of a dearth of Biblical teaching and moral leadership. I was just in NYC and visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It may as well be just another of the dozens of secular museums. Crowds of people gawking inside with no appreciation of the sanctity of the place. I expect that Jesus wouldn’t hesitate to run the money changers out of this modern day temple.