US Secretary of State Pompeo: Vatican must ‘forcefully’ call out Chinese Communist Party’s abuses

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he principal thrust of the essay is that the Vatican, which has boldly spoken out against repressive political regimes before, must do so again on behalf of people abused by communist China. “Now more than ever, the Chinese people need the Vatican’s moral witness and authority in support of China’s religious believers,” Pompeo wrote.

“The Holy See has a unique capacity and duty to focus the world’s attention on human rights violations, especially those perpetrated by totalitarian regimes like Beijing’s. In the late twentieth century, the Church’s power of moral witness helped inspire those who liberated central and eastern Europe from communism, and those who challenged autocratic and authoritarian regimes in Latin America and East Asia,” he continued.

“That same power of moral witness should be deployed today with respect to the Chinese Communist Party.”

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This month Vatican diplomats will be sitting down with Chinese officials to discuss their 2018 concordat. Pompeo explained to readers that the Vatican had hoped to improve conditions for Chinese Catholics by coming to an agreement with China about the appointment of bishops.

Unfortunately, that did not happen.

“Two years on, it’s clear that the Sino-Vatican agreement has not shielded Catholics from the Party’s depredations, to say nothing of the Party’s horrific treatment of Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong devotees, and other religious believers,” Pompeo wrote.

“The State Department’s 2019 annual report on religious freedom provides an illustrative example in the story of Father Paul Zhang Guangjun, who was beaten and “disappeared” for refusing to join the CCP-run Patriotic Catholic Association,” he continued.
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and cherry on the sunday
this

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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - An official with the Holy See is reaffirming that the secretive deal signed with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 2018 will be renewed.

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Cdl. Parolin, Abp. Celli and Bp. Sorondo

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, told reporters on Monday that the Holy See and the atheist CCP are poised to renew their accord set to expire by October.

Parolin's assertion confirms the words of other prelates like Italian archbishop Claudio Maria Celli and Argentine bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.

"The deal is an interim deal, which expires, as you said, in September of this year. We have to find a formula. We have to see what to do after this deadline. I think we should probably reconfirm it for one or two years," Celli, former president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said

Celli, who played a role in negotiating the 2018 Vatican-China accord, claimed that the "Catholic Church in China must be fully Chinese, but fully Catholic! There are no discounts to make."
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He continued:

On our journey, we must all be faithful to the gospel. It is not an easy path, but it seems to me that we have embarked on a respectful path trying to understand each other ... to see how to still resolve those knots that remain and those situations that undeniably leave [us] much more than thoughtful — I would say worried. However, we must carry it forward.

According to Global Times, Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, confirmed the renewal in August, saying "They are going to renew it, which means the initial experience went well."

'Total Sellout' of the Church
In China, the CCP only officially recognizes Catholics who belong to the Chinese Patriotic Association (CPA), which is a communist-controlled arm of the State. Catholics loyal to the Holy See and not belonging to the CPA are referred to as the "underground Church."
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xperts are saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been sending $2 billion annually to the Holy See since 2013, the year Pope Francis took office. The lucre is part of a CCP strategy for world domination to bribe, compromise and control Italy through the Vatican and the European Union through Italy. The deal between China and the Vatican seems traceable to the disgraced Theodore McCarrick.
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Your posts are truly interesting.

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The unholy blind = catholic

The Vatican is to Pompeo as Everest is to the Maldives.

Vatican has been taken over by Marxists

pompeo has been taken over by little debbie

How does Pompeo relate to that video when it is about Biden?

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