Another cost of Francis’s overtures has come in the form of his silence about China’s human-rights violations. In July 2020, amid China’s crackdown on prodemocracy protests in Hong Kong, Francis decided not to deliver prepared remarks calling for “nonviolence, and respect for the dignity and rights of all” in the city, and voicing hope that “social life, and especially religious life, may be expressed in full and true freedom.” Vatican diplomats privately expressed puzzlement at the pope’s decision.
1 posted on
05/17/2024 6:14:48 PM PDT by
ebb tide
To: ebb tide
Is it a gamble or just shameless pandering?
To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...
3 posted on
05/17/2024 6:16:13 PM PDT by
ebb tide
To: ebb tide
He wants all Catholics treated the way they are treated in commie China. This POS heretic is as Catholic as Stalin.
4 posted on
05/17/2024 6:25:26 PM PDT by
HYPOCRACY
(Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
To: ebb tide
“The Ten Commandments and the core socialist values are the same.”
And satan LAUGHED, and LAUGHED, and LAUGHED, and...
6 posted on
05/17/2024 6:56:10 PM PDT by
Montana_Sam
(Truth lives.)
To: ebb tide
In 1958 the Church wrote in its “Communism and the Church in China” encyclical about the Chinese Patriotic Association. “For under an appearance of patriotism, which in reality is just a fraud, this association aims primarily at making Catholics gradually embrace the tenets of atheistic materialism, by which God Himself is denied and religious principles are rejected.”
7 posted on
05/17/2024 7:08:59 PM PDT by
teacherwoes
(Our Lady of China, pray for us)
To: ebb tide
The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics
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I love it when The Atlantic feigns concern about Roman Catholics. /s
10 posted on
05/17/2024 8:40:17 PM PDT by
Bishop_Malachi
(Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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