Posted on 10/24/2022 3:09:05 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — The editors of the Wall Street Journal have published a searing indictment of Pope Francis, insisting he has undermined the Church’s moral authority by pandering to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The case in point is the Vatican’s renewal Saturday of its secret agreement with the CCP on the appointment of bishops in the country, which since its inception in 2018 has resulted in the ordination of just 6 bishops, despite some 36 vacant episcopal sees.
The chief fruit of the accord has instead been “to mute Vatican criticism of human-rights abuses,” the editors state in Monday’s op-ed, “from the genocide of the Muslim Uyghurs to the political prosecution of Cardinal Joseph Zen in Hong Kong.”
Pope Francis, “who is so critical of the U.S. and capitalism, is silent on China,” the essay asserts. “This is a return to the Vatican’s failed Ostpolitik of the 1960s and 1970s, when Rome muted criticism of the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.”
Indeed, during his nearly eight years as pope, Francis has carefully avoided doing or saying anything that could be construed as criticism of Chinese leadership, including the CCP’s crackdown on Christian churches, its brutal suppression of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, and its horrific genocide of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.
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Every year at Christmas and again on Easter, the pope reads out a litany of human rights abuses and situations of suffering and injustice from around the globe and it has become almost comical to watch him dance around China as if nothing problematic were happening there.
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Pope Francis also gives a pass to China on environmental concerns, where he continually passes judgement on the West.
All the martyred saints who held firm against the State’s persecution down through the ages, no doubt are spinning in their graves.
and gays and abortionists
“Pope Francis Has Undermined His Moral Authority by Pandering to China“
That ship sailed years ago.
The only place that Francis has any moral authority is in hell.
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The Church has been undermined since Vatican II.
Good to see that WSJ calling him out. Of course, to a Marxist like Bergoglio, the likely response would be along the lines of “I must be doing something right if the fat-cat capitalists are against me.”
He had one job, lead humans to Christ not the golden solar panel.
Somehow, that was lost on him.
The moral authority which says trees are more important than people? That says all religions are equal, and it doesn’t matter which god you follow?
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