Posted on 02/17/2017 12:14:46 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
…You’re reported as saying that a Vatican deal with China would be to “betray Christ.”…
…What I mean is that if the Pope “knowingly” signed a bad agreement with the communists, it would be a betrayal of Jesus, and a betrayal of the good and faithful people in the Catholic Church in China.
I’m not against the dialogue…I cannot see goodwill on the side of the communists. …To dialogue means to compromise, but the communists are not ready to give anything…they have full control of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association...
…They probably want to see a decision from the Vatican telling the underground Church to come up, so then they will have full control of the Church.
They [the underground Church] would be the ones who would be betrayed: They have resisted under so much pressure…
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