[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV "Cannot Comment" on Jimmy Lai’s Imprisonment

As he left Castel Gandolfo for the Vatican this evening, Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists again. However, he took only one question from EWTN.

It was about Jimmy Lai's 20-year sentence under Hong Kong's national security law. Leo XIV replied: "I can't comment on that."

He then added that "we must pray for peace, work for peace and reduce hatred". He continued: 'Hatred is constantly increasing in the world. We must seek to promote dialogue and find solutions.”

On 23 December, he “couldn’t comment” on a question about his appointment of the effeminate Archbishop Ronald Hicks of New York.

(Asked) about Jimmy Lai's 20-year sentence under Hong Kong's national security law. Leo XIV replied: "I can't comment on that."

The "synodal" popes have been openly critical of Trump enforcing US border laws; but they dare not speak up for the persecuted Catholics suffering under Xi Jinping and the chicoms illicit consecration of political "bishops."

If a Pope criticizes President Trump, the President is not going to crack down on Catholics.

If a Pope criticizes Xi, then there WILL be a crack down.

big difference

Luke 12:
31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

big difference indeed

If a Pope criticizes Xi, then there WILL be a crack down.

Baloney. The chicoms have doubled-down on the persecution of faithful underground Catholics ever since Bergoglio and Parolin sold them out in the "secret deal" of 2018. Faithful bishops have been arrested, some haven't been heard from in years, unsanctioned churches destroyed, children forbidden to go to church (whether underground or state) until they're 18 yrs old, etc.

And now a pope can't comment on a faithful Catholic being falsely imprisoned for 20 yrs; yet when a convicted murder comes up for execution in the U.S., he hollers.

Missouri Executes Death Row Prisoner Despite Pleas From Pope and Others

Cronos, how dare you factually, and correctly, criticize, “ebby’s Holy Trinity” - LieSite, Gloria’s Circus and/or Rotate. ebby will soon call you heterodox, gay, a Marian hater or, worst of all, a Jesuit. And, ebby will certainly tell you, at a minimum, that you aren’t a Catholic! Now get to confession!

Leo’s silence, however, echoes that of Pope Francis when Lai was arrested in 2020 for alleged fraud. At the time, columnist William McGurn wrote that Francis’ silence on China and Lai “bellows up and down the world.” He posited that Francis’ reluctance to speak out was a direct result of the Vatican-China deal, which he noted “gives the Communist state extraordinary say over the selection of Catholic bishops.”

That controversial Vatican-China deal, which has been followed by intensified persecution of Chinese Catholics, remains in place under Pope Leo. Since the approval of the deal, bishops, priests, seminarians, and laity have been arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for not signing up to the Chinese Communist Party-run state church organization, with Chinese authorities reportedly having added extra pressure onto faithful Catholics by saying that Pope Francis supported the state “church.”

Following Lai’s sentencing, human rights advocate Jason Jones called upon Catholics to speak out against the “rotten” Vatican-China deal, calling upon Rome to end it once and for all.

“When it brutally persecutes the Catholic Church in China, driving believers underground and disappearing clergy – including bishops – it does so under a ‘deal’ with the Vatican that grants ‘legitimacy’ to clerics under the ‘Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association,’” wrote Jones in February.

Pope Leo says he ‘can’t comment’ on Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence for criticizing Chinese Communists

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