Mar Elias Evangelism

Nina Shea on China: << Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Parolin is the architect of the China deal and its chief enthusiast. Beijing has not-so-subtly signaled that he is China’s top pick for the next pope.... The deal endangers faithful clergy in China. A stark reminder of this reality came last month when the Chinese state security authorities indefinitely detained Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of the Catholic diocese of Wenzhou without due process. This is the sixty-one-year-old underground prelate’s eighth detention over the last seven years. At least ten Catholic bishops in China are presently in indefinite detention or otherwise restricted in their ministries for opposing government control over their church. The Vatican silently accepts and covers up this repression and, after the 2018 deal, has withdrawn its support from the underground church. >> As I've said before, the selling out of the suffering Church in China, ALL BY ITSELF, would be enough to blacken forever the last pontificate (Francis).