Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong previously declared that too much compromise with the CCP would undermine the Church’s moral authority and “witness from within”.
After all, the ultimate mission of the Catholic Church is to labor for the salvation of souls, and not to kowtow to the whims of the CCP regime nor further emboldening it. If Pope Leo XIV chooses upholding Catholic principles over political compromise with the CCP, he would, with God’s grace, elevate the Church’s moral standing and credibility both within and beyond China.
Meanwhile, faithful Catholics can do their part in praying for the Catholic Church in China. As Cardinal Zen said in 2020:
“I love China. China is not the Communist Party. The Party is not eternal, we hope to be one day, soon, free from the tyranny of Communism. We believe in God and in the intercession of Our Lady. May all the good people preserve their faith and the bad people be convicted!”
The Church must recover the courage to speak plainly: not every soul is rightly disposed to receive Christ in the Eucharist, and pretending otherwise is not compassion—it is betrayal. If we truly believe in the Real Presence, then it must mean something. And if it means something, then so do our sins.
Leo also highlighted the need of “conversion” for those who do not yet prioritize “the urgency of caring for our common home,” saying:
At the beginning of Mass, we prayed for conversion, our conversion. I would like to add that we must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home.
The last two popes have seemed to be more concerned about converting souls to the "care for the 'common home'", than they about converting souls to Jesus Christ. Our home is Heaven not on this earth.
After many years of climate alarmism rhetoric from the late pontiff, in 2022 the Vatican officially joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Francis defended the controversial move, saying that “she [‘Mother Earth’] weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction.”
Such notable continued promotion of the Paris Agreement, which underpins the majority of the current “climate change” agenda, came despite the agreement’s fundamentally pro-abortion principles which connect to the stated U.N. goal of creating a universal “right” to abortion in line with Goal No. 5.6 of the organization’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Officials organizing the new (Amazonian) Missal have indicated they will promote a married priesthood and even the ordination of women deacons – both issues critics say is a stalking horse to change Church teaching.
Foister, I'm sure you and Jimmy Martin are familiar with this prayer:
The organization’s site also displays a prayer written by openly homosexual Catholic priest Bernárd J. Lynch, who states on his blog, “I am married to my husband Billy since 1998.”