[ebb tide]

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.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is it a gamble or just shameless pandering?

[ebb tide]

Ping

[HYPOCRACY]

He wants all Catholics treated the way they are treated in commie China. This POS heretic is as Catholic as Stalin.

[Montana_Sam]

“The Ten Commandments and the core socialist values are the same.”

And satan LAUGHED, and LAUGHED, and LAUGHED, and...

[teacherwoes]

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.”

[Bishop_Malachi]

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