These underdeveloped peoples will save the Church, Eminence. A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God, that His Son is only a symbol, a philosophy like so many others. And in churches, Christians will search for the red lamp where Jesus awaits them, like the sinful woman crying out before the empty tomb: ‘Where have they taken Him?’
Then, priests will rise up from Africa, from Asia, from America, formed here in this seminary of the Missions, who will say and who will proclaim that the ‘bread of life’ is not ordinary bread, that the mother of the God-man is not a mother like others. And they will be cut to pieces to testify that Christianity is not a religion like others, since her head is the Son of God, and the Church is His Church.
Pope Pius XII
We are there.
Incredible.
How time has slipped through our fingers to arrive at this period.
I realize that the full blown persecution hasn’t begun yet, however that time is nearing.
China is there…and American Catholics better pay attention.
A communist America is pounding on the door.
Pope Pius XII was prescient. Of course, he had inside information. Hopefully, more and more folks–especially our Bishops and Pope–will wake up that what he said is happening now.
The Holy Family, and many of the people Christ called to apostolic and discipleship roles were people who worked with their hands. St Joseph was a carpenter. St Paul was a tent-maker, with Aquila and Priscilla. There were several fishermen. When Peter and John appeared before the Council in the book of Acts 4:13 it says:
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“13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus” (RSVCE)
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Their socio-economic status has more in common with the so-called Trump deplorables than it does with the globalist elites. The deplorables were also called bitter clingers by Obama. Hillary Clinton stated that religious beliefs have to be changed. So much for respecting the First Amendment.
This pope is delusional. The ChiComs and other Communists are never to be trusted. Evil. Persecution of Catholic, Christians, Fulan Gong and minorities. Forced abortions, infanticide, organ harvesting, slave labor, re-education, torture and starvation, executions, bio-warfare. Imagine what other horrors are ongoing that haven’t made the news. God, help the mainland Chinese.