Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 9:33pm

PopeWatch: China

That Vatican-China deal keeps looking better and better:

 

The Diocese of Mindong in the southeastern province of Fujian has been suffering severe persecution at the hands of the CCP because most of its priests refused to join the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA). The Vatican Guidelines of 2019, issued nine months after the Vatican-China deal of 2018 was signed, foresee that priests and bishops of what was known as the Underground Catholic Church may remain outside the CPCA for reasons of conscience. Regardless, the communist regime uses any means possible to force all Catholics under its control.

Five parishes in the diocese were closed in January after their priests had been pressured to join the Patriotic Church for over a year, using indoctrination, intimidation, and even bribes. All charitable organizations established and managed by the parishes were also targeted. One such victim was “Benevolence Home,” a nursing home founded by a Catholic church in Saiqi, a town administered by Fujian’s Fuan city, over 20 years ago to care for elderly believers.

On January 12, nearly 50 local government officials and police officers raided the nursing home, where more than 30 people lived, some of whom were from impoverished households or disabled.

Go here to read the rest.  Catholics, sadly, have frequently been persecuted in the history of the Church,  That is not unusual.  What is unusual is the persecution being done with the tacit blessing of the Pope.  The reaction of the gang in the Vatican to this wave of persecution has been to double down on their support of the Vatican-China deal.  Go here to read about it.  May God forgive them.

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, May 29, AD 2020 4:20am

We would be to far off to think that “Pope” Francis wall all Catholics to be Communist “Catholics”.

Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Friday, May 29, AD 2020 6:48am

Funny, but I won’t be hearing about this during the happy, clappy, trappy intentions at Mass this Sunday. I guess this just doesn’t make any self-respecting SJW’s list of concerns. Granted, it is darned inconvenient to the image of the one they all hold so dear.

Mark
Mark
Friday, May 29, AD 2020 10:42am

Where is the McCarrick report?

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, May 29, AD 2020 1:19pm

Y’ever notice everything was alright (in the no worse than normal sense) in the world prior to this deal?

Probably post hoc ergo propter hoc. Unless it isn’t.

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