[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Vatican needs to be silent about SOMETHING.

[Arthur McGowan]

I would say there has never been a Pope who snuggles with totalitarians as this one does. And why shouldn’t he? He is their sock puppet.

[cloudmountain]

Ah, yes, I had forgotten the Chinese "loosing face" crap ideal.
I doubt that we ever hear anything from China except the party line, so why bother to pay any attention to it?

[ebb tide]

Pope Francis praises China in latest effort to thaw chilly relations

Like he did with Cuba and the Castro brother dictators, Francis seems to suck-up to any Communist country that will have him.