The redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen said Thursday that the recently inked deal between the Vatican and China over the naming of bishops spells the “annihilation” of the Church in China.
In an op-ed for the New York Times titled “The Pope Doesn’t Understand China,” Cardinal Zen — the retired bishop of Hong Kong — speculated that the new deal, which concedes an unspecified role in the appointment of bishops to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is fruit of the naivete of Pope Francis.
“Francis may have natural sympathy for Communists because for him, they are the persecuted,” Zen wrote. “He doesn’t know them as the persecutors they become once in power, like the Communists in China.”
And while supporters of the accord say that it brings unity after longstanding division between the underground Church loyal to the pope and the “official” church approved by the Chinese authorities, in reality it is “a major step toward the annihilation of the real Church in China,” Zen said.
“Pope Francis, an Argentine, doesn’t seem to understand the Communists,” Zen added, perhaps because of his experience in South America he sees them as defenders of the poor against oppressors.
The cardinal recalled that after China severed relations with the Vatican in the 1950s, Catholics and other believers were arrested and sent to labor camps. more
Of course he does. Demanding unwavering allegiance to an omnipotent leader is something they have in common.
I see the Seminole flag on the back door
He’s pretty darned fond of child molesting priests too. They’re much important than the child-victims of the pervs in his opinion.
To be wrong on so many issues can’t be by accident.
Today’s Catholic Church has taken a far left turn. I am glad I was never a Catholic, especially now.
@ Will,
The progressive movement deliberately and systematically infiltrated the Catholic Church. I could see it starting about 1969 as a ten year old kid and witnessed the progression as their campaign to destroy The Church from inside as it went down.
As for Pope Narcissus, he is a Marxist/progressive/liberation theologian, always has been and always will be. That is the Alpha through the Omega of the worldview of that son of a bitch.
“…he is a Marxist/progressive/liberation theologian…” – JDHasty
That sums it up.
There’s a reason we refer to Father Bergoglio as Red Francis. Where have these people been? This Pope was raised on Liberation Theology and champions every Leftist cause there is. Go to Ann Barnhardt’s page or The Remnant Newspaper to learn all you need to know about this anti-Catholic commie.
Red Francis has infested the College of Cardinals by appointing like minded liberal marxists to lead the church after he is gone.
The socialist stench that fills the catholic church will last for decades.
Like many, I gave up Catholicism for Lent and never went back! I can’t say that the Church has given me any reason to doubt that I did the right thing.
American Catholics I know are not
at all happy with his SJW politics.
A lot of us are backing off donations
and other forms of support that lets
him play these Jesuitical “games”
with the commies.
If your church has an entire Department of Social Justice, its priests are regularly indicted for ass raping acolytes across decades and elects an Argentine communist as next-in-line to Jesus Christ…it is time to consider Protestantism.