Posted on 09/29/2020 7:24:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the worst things about the mainstream media’s habit of treating American politics as a high school popularity contest is that it obscures actual news with important consequences. A story that has received a lot of play in the foreign media and almost none in the American media is that the Vatican is renewing a deal with China that gives the Chinese government a say in the appointment of Catholic bishops. The Vatican did this despite strong opposition from the U.S. Government. A craven Pope Francis then delivered a snub to the Trump administration when he refused to meet with Secretary Mike Pompeo.
The first thing to get out of the way is the fact that, yes, Pope Francis is leftist in his orientation. Francis is a product of the communist “liberation theology” movement that swept Latin American Catholicism in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of his values owe more to Marx and the modern Progressive movement than they do to the Bible and the values of the Catholic faith.
Therefore, it should not be a surprise that, in 2018, Pope Frances entered into a deal with the Chinese government regarding the status of the Catholic faith in that communist country. You may not have known this, but China has about 12 million professed Catholics. Some of them “worship” at a state-sponsored “Catholic church,” while others worship in an underground Catholic church loyal to the Vatican. The members of this second church have often been persecuted for their loyalty to the Pope.
Pope Frances has decided that the way to break through to the Chinese Catholics is to appease the communist government. Two years ago, the Vatican entered into a secret agreement with the government.
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Pope Francis immediately recognised eight Chinese bishops who had been appointed by Beijing without his approval.
Since then, two new bishops have been appointed in China, with a nod from the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics.
And in a historic step earlier this year, Chinese and Vatican foreign affairs ministers met publicly at an international event for the first time in 70 years.
Catholic Church corruption - bump for later....
The pope-a-dope has placed the Church subordinate to the chinese communist regime. No surprise, since he worships communism and deprecates Christianity.
Henry VIII was right. Get the Pope out of politics
So, if Francis was Pope in the forties, would his agreement with the Third Reich be that Chancellor Hitler gets a say
in the appointment of brownshirt bishops?
Whats the agreement? All bishops have to be atheists?
Best summary of the situation that I have read.
and it is a SECRET deal!!!
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
- Romans 8:28
With this Pope, this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
This guy is such a disaster for the Catholic Church that
ultimately it will rub off on other churches, Christianity
in general.
Who is surprised? The Pope is a Communist, which in my book makes him a false Pope.
The destruction of the Catholic church from within continues. It’s SOP for communists, everywhere.
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