Caving to the FASCIST DRAGON OF ASIA! ... IT'S UNBELIEVABLE, but it seems the VATICAN has just TURNED IT'S BACK on the Chinese CHURCH!

DID POPE FRANCIS CAPITULATE

TO GODLESS CHINA?

Pope FRANCIS, it seems, has SOLD OUT to GENOCIDAL CHINA, BETRAYING the Church, it's people and THE FAITH:
-- CHINA now enforces HARSHER REG'S limiting/DESTROYING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
-- Underground Mass, nixed
-- All bishops, selected by gov't-led Council of Bishops w/minimal Rome input

https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/13/pope-franciss-capitulation-communist-china-betrays-people-faith/

Pope Francis’s Capitulation To China Betrays His People And His Faith: Far from making life easier for Chinese Catholics, accepting Communist control of their bishops disheartens and oppresses them further.

The New EVIL COMPACT

Between CHINA'S GANGSTERS
and the VATICAN

(GPR Shortened and edited article By Maureen Mullarkey/FEBRUARY 13, 2018)

"... Far from making life easier for Chinese Catholics, this disheartens and oppresses them further. The reward for their heroic decades-long endurance is a garland of tears over betrayal by the papacy they honored at cost to themselves. No wonder Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Shanghai-born bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, calls it “a bad deal.” A lion of a man, and a persistent advocate for human rights and democratic liberties, Zen has been an obstacle to Vatican appeasement of Beijing.

What China’s Rulers Want, and Are Getting
On January 18, the cardinal posted an open letter on his blog—reposted by AsiaNews—warning against the consequence of accommodation: “The Communist government is making new, harsher regulations limiting religious freedom. They are now strictly enforcing regulations which, up to now, were practically only on paper. From the 1st of February, 2018, attendance to Mass in the underground will no longer be tolerated.”

No More Underground Mass Allowed
Mass in the underground will no longer be tolerated. In other words, the emboldened regime need no longer keep up appearances for public relations. With the Vatican’s blessing, it can openly enforce prohibition of the valid Mass for which close to three generations of Chinese faithful have suffered.

Bishop's Key Selectors Will Now Be China
Going forward, all bishops will be “democratically” selected by the government-led Council of Bishops, to which the Vatican has already ceded authority. Names will be sent to Rome for rubber stamping, a sellout that appears to have been in the works for some time.

Insistence Upon Communist Control of the Church
... Any mention of imprisoned bishops was off the table. Then as now, Beijing’s proposal consisted exclusively on complete recognition by the Holy See for all Communist Party-approved bishops. Moreover: “The Holy See must approve the Council’s appointment and has a weak veto only in ‘severe’ cases, which must be justified if used. If the Holy See’s justifications are considered ‘insufficient,’ the Council of Bishops may decide to proceed anyway.”

... Increased controls have one purpose: to preserve the monopoly of power of the Communist Party of China (CPC), it's ideas and to remove or crush any person who might challenge it or its existence

The Pope's Moves towards

CASTRATING the CHURCH in FASCIST CHINA

... Implicit in Francis’ conciliation is permission to ignore a range of moral matters that define a Christian conscience. The Catholic Church’s philosophical arguments defending the inviolable dignity of human life and the primacy of the individual cannot be asserted in pulpits.

Silence is assured on labor camps, on the execution of prisoners to feed the lucrative organ trade, and on “family planning” policies. A comfortably Sinicized church can keep a good conscience while disregarding forced abortions, forced sterilizations, or forced migration (e.g., the massive Three Gorges Dam project unhoused 1.4 million peasants and submerged some 900 towns and villages).

In all, the Bergolian pontificate is set to achieve what the Communists have not: strangulating the Catholic Church as a living witness to the gospels and their demands."

(Maureen Mullarkey is on Twitter, @mmletters)

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