Posted on 05/18/2021 4:49:51 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — Pope Francis has appointed Jesuit Father Stephen Chow Sau-yan to be the new Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong as the latest elevation of members of his order to positions of influence.
Father Chow, who currently serves as the Provincial of the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus, will replace Cardinal John Tong Hon, who has served as the Apostolic Administrator of Hong Kong since January 2019.
In naming Chow to occupy this important and controversial post, Pope Francis has continued his penchant for appointing members of his own order to key ecclesiastical posts.
The first Jesuit Pope in history, Francis named Jesuit Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer in 2017 to head the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office (CDF), making him the first member of the Jesuit order to occupy that position as well.
“This gives the pope the chance to finally place his own man in a very important spot,” said Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large of America magazine, at the time.
While some are delighting in the appointment, “some will feel uneasy about having two members of the Society of Jesus holding the two most senior positions in the Church,” wrote veteran Vatican journalist Edward Pentin. No religious order in history has held these two posts simultaneously.
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I wonder if President Xi gave Pope Francis a list of “tame” Catholics for him to chose as the new Bishop of Hong Kong?
And the homo rights movement in Hong Kong gains even more globalist support. Imagine that.
Well, there goes Hong Kong. The Jesuits got themselves thrown out of Japan in the sixteenth century and most of Asia shortly after that. Francis, a Jesuit himself, the first such Pope, has about wrecked the Church. They’re to be shunned.
When the white pope and the black pope are the same person...
Actually, with Bergoglio’s kowtowing to Red China, he’s the red, white and black pope.
True
The Jesuits.... They were commies before communism came into existence.
The Jesuits should have been suppressed again.
Frankie sure is doing a lot of lap-dogging for that 2 Billion per year he’s getting from the CCP.
And I forgot one, the Green Pope (with his treehugging, global warming crusade).
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