The Vatican’s secret China deal empowered the CCP’s War on Religious Freedom. The Vatican placated the CCP: Eight Years of Appeasement brings Eight Years of Persecution.
The Patriotic Chinese Catholic Association was established in 1957 by the authority of Mao Zedong, and under the control of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the CCP with the goal to bring Catholicism into alignment with Communist ideology. Yet, 3 million Chinese retreated to the Underground Catholic Church and remained faithful to the tenets of the Catholic faith and the Vatican. They refused to follow the CCP’s fake patriotic church, knowing that the Communist government sought to undermine the Catholic faith, by imposing atheistic communist principles upon the Catholic faithful and clergy. For decades, the Underground Catholic Church resisted the CCP and heeded Pope Pius XII’s warning about the dangerous threat of the CCP Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association Church:
“For under the appearance of patriotism, which in reality, is just a fraud, this patriotic association aims primarily at making Catholics gradually embrace the tenets of atheistic materialism, by which God Himself is denied and religious principles are rejected.” “{i}n reality it aims at setting aside and neglecting the rights of the Church and effecting its complete subjection to civil authorities.”
~Pius XII, Ad Apostolorum Principis, 1958.
Significantly, Wikileaks released a U.S. diplomatic cable dated December 21, 2007, which disclosed that Pope Benedict saw no agreement with the Chinese Government on Bishop ordinations based on China’s incessant duplicity, deception and insistence on the very issue which the Leo Vatican now supports, the Patriotic Catholic Church. In the released U.S. cable titled, CHINA – HOLY SEE: NO AGREEMENT ON CATHOLIC BISHOP ORDINATIONS, the U.S. Embassy describes the breakdown:
On December 17, 2007, the US Embassy was informed that: that the Holy See and the Government of China (GoC) had not reached an agreement or even an informal understanding on the issue of episcopal ordinations during the recently held Holy See
– GoC talks in Beijing. Rota-Graziosi, who accompanied Deputy Foreign Minister equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin to the talks at the (GoC) Government of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that GoC had not changed its long-standing demand that the Holy See agree to refrain from exercising dominion over episcopal ordinations.According to the Vatican Representative, Msgr. Rota-Graziosi, “I see no hope for a breakthrough on the issue of episcopal ordinations or on the normalization of relations between the GoC (Government of China) and the Holy See in the near or mid-term”, adding that “any reports indicating otherwise are probably disinformation from the GoC designed to create goodwill for the regime in the lead-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics and to encourage the underground church to come out into the open where it can be better controlled by the Catholic Patriotic Association.”
Benedict terminated talks with the CCP. The evidence is unmistakable and irrefutable. As the diplomatic cable reveals, Pope Benedict recognized that the Chinese were operating in bad faith throughout the negotiations and terminated them, rather than risk a fraudulent and perilous agreement.
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