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What’s a Bible Between Friends?

That China-Vatican deal looks better every day:

 

China will rewrite the Bible and Quran to ‘reflect socialist values’ amid crackdown on the country’s religious groups, a report has revealed.   

New editions must not contain any content that goes against the beliefs of the Communist Party, according to a top party official. Paragraphs deemed wrong by the censors will be amended or re-translated. 

Though the Bible and Quran were not mentioned specifically, the party called for a ‘comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aiming at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times’.

The order was given in November during a meeting held by the Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which oversees the ethnic and religious matters in China.

Go here to read the rest.  What the China-Vatican deal says to ordinary Catholics is that the gang currently in control at the Vatican will not hesitate to sell you out to your sworn enemies if they think they can get something they want out of it.  However, not to fear:

“Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese,” a senior Vatican official has said.

Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, praised the Communist state as “extraordinary”, saying: “You do not have shantytowns, you do not have drugs, young people do not take drugs”. Instead, there is a “positive national conscience”.

The bishop told the Spanish-language edition of Vatican Insider that in China “the economy does not dominate politics, as happens in the United States, something Americans themselves would say.”

Bishop Sánchez Sorondo said that China was implementing Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ better than many other countries and praised it for defending Paris Climate Accord. “In that, it is assuming a moral leadership that others have abandoned”, he added.

He accused US president Donald Trump of being “manipulated” by global oil firms, and said that, as opposed to those who follow “liberal thought”, the Chinese are working for the greater good of the planet.

Go here to read the rest.  Machiavellians or idiots, take your pick.  I guess a third option would be Machiavellians and idiots.

 

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Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, December 26, AD 2019 5:23am

Too bad they cut Tigger & Eeyore out of the foot of the Cross in the illustration above.

They never did abandon Pooh.

Prayers for the underground Catholics.
They need them and much more than prayers. A strong pontificate wouldn’t hurt.

OrdinaryCatholic
OrdinaryCatholic
Thursday, December 26, AD 2019 6:05am

“He accused US president Donald Trump of being “manipulated” by global oil firms, and said that, as opposed to those who follow “liberal thought”, the Chinese are working for the greater good of the planet.”

The Chinese working for the greater good of the planet is such a bunch of horse puckey that I cannot imagine anyone taking that line seriously without laughing. It is no wonder God would shorten the days so even the elect do not lose faith. Hang on tight people. The Vatican has been taken for a ride by the ChiComs at the sacrifice of the Chinese Catholics.

father of seven
father of seven
Thursday, December 26, AD 2019 7:20am

At least Judas returned his 30 pieces of silver. Seems like he’s going to be getting some company soon. I can just hear him: “Well if it isn’t Mr. Hell Doesn’t Exist. Come on in.”

Clinton
Clinton
Thursday, December 26, AD 2019 8:02am

I have a question for that Vatican nitwit, His Excellency Bishop Sanchez Sorondo: if, as he says, Communist China is so wonderful and the USA is so sadly backward by this Pope’s standards, then where are all the millions of people trying to find a way across China’s borders to make a life in that supposed paradise? Because from where I’m standing, it looks like the poor and oppressed of the world have a very different take on which of the two— China or the US— they’d rather live in. Now why do you suppose that might be?

Just when I think I couldn’t have more contempt for the people running this current pontificate, they pull something like this and prove there are depths they still haven’t plumbed.

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