Posted on 03/19/2020 6:19:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — The Vatican is dragging its feet in the beatification of Chinese Catholic hero Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei due to “diplomatic sensitivity,” according to a report from UCANews.
Cardinal Kung was the Catholic Bishop of Shanghai who was arrested by the communist regime in 1955 and thrown into jail for 30 years for refusing to renounce his loyalty to Rome. Revered as a hero of the Christian resistance by Chinese Catholics, Kung has served as an inspiration to all those who suffer persecution for their faith under Chinese communist rule.
March 12, 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of Kung’s death, who was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1979, while Kung was still serving a life sentence in prison.
“I felt that the whole Church could not but honor a man who has given witness by word and deed, through long suffering and trials, to what constitutes the essence of life in the Church: participation in the divine life through the apostolic faith and evangelical love,” John Paul said in 1991, while praising Kung for his steadfast communion with “the Church of Rome and the successor of Peter.”
According to UCANews, some church leaders think the Vatican now values its current agreement with China on the appointment of bishops more than the beatification of Cardinal Kung, and therefore the Church will avoid doing anything that could upset the Chinese government.
“Pushing for Cardinal Kung’s beatification is a waste of time, and the Vatican would not accept it,” said Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong. Cardinal Zen told UCA News that the Vatican is delaying the beatification process because it does not want to offend China, “Cardinal Kung is a faithful representative of the Catholic Church. How can the Vatican ignore his.......
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What’s next they are going to make Diocletian a saint?
Bastards bought and paid for by the ChiCom regime.
A far cry from Pope Pius XII who excommunicated all who were involved in the persecution, show trial and imprisonment of Cardinal Jószef Mindszenty by Hungary’s Stalinist government in 1950.
I would expect nothing else from a communist Pope!!!!
The money changers are back in the temple.
Isn’t bowing to Satan’s minions disrespectful to God?
The Vatican has sent 700,000 health masks to Red China; zero to Italy or other countries.
I would flee a church that so obviously is more interested in pleasing man than pleasing God.
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