Posted on 07/07/2022 4:35:27 PM PDT by ebb tide
Littlejohn called on the Vatican to release the text of the Holy See’s provisional agreement with the Chinese Communist Party government, which has been kept secret since the agreement was first signed in 2018.
VATICAN CITY — Human rights advocates have raised concerns about heightened restrictions on Christians in China after Pope Francis expressed hope that the Holy See’s agreement with Beijing will be renewed in the fall.
Nearly four years after the Holy See entered into an agreement with Chinese authorities in September 2018, Pope Francis told Reuters in an interview published this week that he believes “the agreement is moving well.”
Human rights advocates disagree.
Nina Shea, the director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, told CNA on July 6 that since the agreement was signed in 2018 “the CCP has all but destroyed the Catholic underground church and tightened conformity with its teachings over the patriotic church.”
“The six new episcopal appointments used to justify the Beijing agreement are offset by the detention, arrest or disappearance of six Vatican-recognized Catholic bishops,” Shea said.
“Children are now banned from churches and exposure to religion, Bibles are tightly restricted and censored on the Internet and in app stores, churches are blanketed with high tech state surveillance, priests and Christian leaders are forced into life-long indoctrination on Christianity according to communist thought, and required to actively support CCP practices, leadership, and core values, even in their sermons,” she added.
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Red Pope Ping
They arrested Cardinal Zen just recently.
This Pope is bad.
But Frankie says talks are going well.
“Bad?” In the words of the infamous James Comey: “Is that all you got?”
That’s unsettling. The spirit is not from above, that’s for sure.
10% for the Big Pope.
See, the thing is that, by Bergoglio’s standards, the deal IS going well. Good priests arrested and imprisoned? Churches demolished? The faithful demoralized? Commies installed as bishops? Marxism preached instead of the Gospel? Hey, this is like a wish list of everything that Bergoglio wants, so, yes, it’s no wonder he’s happy about the deal and enthusiastic about its renewal.
Maybe Bergoglio has negotiated a higher bribe than the 2 billion US dollars, per year, that Xi Jinping had been slipping him under the table since 2018.
If one reads the Bible about false teachers, Frankie checks a lot of boxes.
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