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Cajun Power's avatar

It was an idiotic deal predicated on the good faith of the Chinese Communists who are, by their very nature, hostile toward religion. Now they’ve made their situation worse because their bishops are, at best, beholden to two masters. Moreover, they’ve encouraged the faithful to join the above-ground Church and can’t plausibly tell them to go back underground. (And, of course, the Church has now made itself beholden to, if not complicit with, China, and therefore cannot speak out against China’s human rights abuses and *gasp* destructive environmental policies. I wonder what the Francis/Parolin line would be if China launched an attack on Taiwan tomorrow?)

This pontificate has continually engaged with the world on the world’s terms with utterly predictable results. It’s a tragic farce.

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Eric's avatar

Honestly, anyone with an ounce of sense saw this coming a mile away.

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