Maybe someone at the Vatican can part with his portion of the two billion a year bribe the Chinese government is supposedly paying a year to help out:
FUZHOU, China, June 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic widow in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, has had her pension revoked because she refused to renounce her faith.
According to a report in Bitter Winter, the elderly woman had been receiving a small subsidy since her husband died in 2018. At the end of 2019, local officials threatened that her subsidy would be stopped unless she would remove images of Jesus from her home. “Because the Communist Party feeds you, you must only believe in it, not God,” they told her. When she refused to remove the images of Jesus, they canceled her subsidy. “It has become difficult to maintain belief in God because of religious persecution,” she told Bitter Winter.
Go here to read the rest. Whether the Vatican is getting two billion a year in bribes from the Chinese government has not been proven. What needs no proof is Vatican silence on atrocities like this, and the fact that the Pope by his silence, and the making of the lop sided Vatican-China deal, indicates that he couldn’t care less how miserably the Chinese government treats faithful Catholics.
The woman is a perfect example of our future:
And her observation is most understandable. “It has become difficult to maintain belief in God because of religious persecution,”
And how will we deal with something similar when the management of the Catholic Church is on the side of the Communists? Modern martyrdom is coming our way soon. Let us pray we are up to the challenge.
Francis is about power, nothing more. He cares not a whit for this poor Christian woman, no differently than he cares not a whit about the unborn, Christians in Nigeria, Christians in Pakistan or Christians anywhere else. After all, God wills a plurality of religions. That poor Chinese widow should know it’s ok to worship the Chinese Communist Party.
They crucified our Lord for one main reason. He refused to remain silent against the forces of evil–about evil. They were able to crucify Him because the high leaders in own religion conspired to silence Him…that plus thirty pieces of silver did Him in. Nothing on Earth is new.
This is why we’re out of the Catholic Church. We would attend the Latin Rite Mass, but not one dime ever for the church, no support of any kind. At most we would give gift cards to FAITHFUL priests, and that is hanging on by a thread. Our once-beloved Catholic Church IS one head of the monster that is tearing through the world like a ravenous beast. Unthinkable, yes, but true. We will not feed it. We’re on our own here, save God’s grace, which will be sufficient, we are told. Believe me, they won’t miss us. There are enough Catholics who support everything we are seeing.
Every year I wonder more and more if Malachi Martin was right.