Friday, March 29, AD 2024 4:29am

PopeWatch: The Judas Explanation

The Vatican continues its hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil policy on China:

But while U.S. and European governments are quickly waking up to threats to human dignity posed by China’s emboldened and ruthless communist leadership, and stepping up to the plate in terms of action, one prominent institution continues to be relatively silent: the Catholic Church.

Regarding Beijing’s treatment of the Uyghurs, aside from a single line in his 2020 book Let Us Dream describing the Uyghurs as a “persecuted people,” Pope Francis has made no public remarks on the plight of the oppressed minority group or any criticism of the Chinese regime — an absence made especially conspicuous given the Holy Father’s typical willingness to comment directly on any number of geopolitical circumstances. The Vatican also has not had much to say regarding the dubious imprisonment of Hong Kong democracy activists, many of whom are prominent Catholics.

In fact, Vatican officials in recent years have offered praise, or at least explained away criticism, of Xi’s regime. In 2018, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said, “at this moment, those who best realize the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese” because they “seek the common good, subordinate things to the general good.” And in 2020, the Holy See’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, received criticism after he described a new policy banning religious involvement or instruction for anyone under 18 years of age as a “regulation” that applies equally to all religions.

When multinational corporations have refrained similarly from criticizing Beijing’s human-rights abuses or have even undermined efforts to confront the ruling regime, motives of profit generally provide a good explanation.

For instance, when corporations like Nike and Google lobbied against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act that came before the U.S. Congress in 2020, the explanation seemed simple: protecting their ability to produce products cheaply, given that the supply chains of those companies and at least 82 well-known global brands include Chinese factories that use Uyghur forced labor.

And when the NBA publicly rebuked a team’s executive for a tweet he made in support of activists in Hong Kong resisting the Chinese Communist Party’s dismantling of democratic norms, the obvious explanation was concern over impairing access to China and its 1 billion potential customers, a concern which was, in fact, well-founded, as China banned NBA broadcasts for an entire year, resulting in a “substantial” loss of revenue estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Go here to read the rest.  Of course the Vatican may simple be reflecting the Pope’s policy of tolerating any regime if it can in some way be called Left and is anti-American, the two causes that warm the cockles of the heart of this pope.  However, when the inexplicable occurs among clerics, as in the case of Judas there is normally the jingle of bribery to explain it.  Judas, the patron damned of this Vatican.

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Thursday, March 25, AD 2021 4:06am

On the Chinese issue alone “Pope” Francis should be considered evil, a Judas, a form of anti-Christ. This is without reference to all the harm he has done internally to the Church. Clearly he is a tool of Satan.

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Thursday, March 25, AD 2021 4:58am

Not diminishing the plight of the Uyghurs people and China’s outright denial of what they are doing to the minorities, but the plight of persecuted Catholics should be a priority for our Pope. These are the nations where Catholics are currently facing persecution (ie. are being killed) and its particularly unsafe for Catholic priests and nuns – Bangladesh, India, Phillipines, Indonesia, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Israel…It’s genocide-levels in Nigeria. I don’t see any practical action from the Pope, let alone a mention of the suffering these Catholics are enduring around the world for their Faith.

FreemenRtrue
FreemenRtrue
Friday, March 26, AD 2021 5:10am

When the Barque of Peter went adrift the whole world went insane.

Don L
Don L
Friday, March 26, AD 2021 8:15am

The difficulty I find is, how in the world does one convince a non-believer that this is God’s Holy Church which you must join, when so much of what the present Chair of Peter espouses is duplicated by so many left-wing political entities? Why adopt a way of life with new burdensome rules when one can just become say…a democrat and shout “social justice” from the rooftops?

Donald Link
Donald Link
Sunday, March 28, AD 2021 10:34am

Seems that Rome has forgotten that the common good is achieved by treating all individuals charitably and not forcing people into a hive existence with a leader at the top dictating all manner of behavior. China managed to throw out over two milenia of empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Though countries and institutions may remain, it is not a given they will be unchanged. It is not inconceivable they could repeat the process in much less time. It is also possible that the Church can undergo change, not necessarily in its best interests, in reaction to a generalized reaction of a large part of its membership to perceived incompetence, irrelevance or generalized mismanagement.

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