Pope Francis must enjoy the attention he gets, otherwise it would be hard to explain some of his outrageous statements. While no offense is intended to dedicated Roman Catholics, this Pope gives the impression of being something of a loose-cannon. His off-the-cuff remarks such as his statement that Muslims and Europeans need to breed in order to reduce declining birth rates, are just preposterous.
One wonders if he will eventually step over the line and create a controversy from which his papacy might not recover. Could turning over the selection of Catholic Bishops to the secular rulers of China be that line?
The Pope is accused of ‘betraying Jesus Christ’ over possible deal with China that will allow the Communist government to select bishops.
That’s an unprecedented undermining of the authority of the Vatican. Allowing atheist leaders in China to select the Catholic Church’s bishops? One is left speechless. But China’s senior Catholic isn’t.
China’s most senior Catholic has blasted the Pope for a potential rapprochement between the Vatican and Beijing comparing it to striking a deal with Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong, said any agreement the church makes with China would be ‘betraying Jesus Christ’ amid a thaw in more than six decades of bitter relations.
And Cardinal Zen, 84, said that at any agreement where Beijing would have a hand in approving clergy would be ‘a surrender’.
The very best one could hope for from China’s leaders is that they leave the church alone. Yet that is very unlikely as Chinese leadership insists on controlling religious expression. Obviously the Pope knows this, but perhaps he doesn’t care.
Chinese Catholics are free to go to mass and attend government-sanctioned churches, but are barred from attempting to convert people into the religion.
And should a deal be struck and the government still able to appoint Bishop’s of their choice the Cardinal said the gospel preached will be still be influenced by the Communist Party.
‘It’s only the impression of freedom, it’s not real freedom, the people sooner or later will see the bishops are puppets of the government and not really the shepherds of the flock.’
‘The official bishops are not really preaching the gospel. They are preaching obedience to Communist authority,’ said Zen who has been outspoken about the lack of political freedom and religious liberty in China.
It’s not just the Catholics who have problems with Chinese authorities.
Protestant Christians also faced similar hurdles with a recent campaign by authorities in eastern China removing more than 1,200 crosses from buildings and demolishing churches.
What was that warning about “making a deal with the devil?”
Source: The Daily Mail
The pope is busy! Have to wait for the little boys to Nap!
Apostasy is the first word that describes the so called vicar of Christ. Communist, heretic, supporter of Muslims, preaches just the opposite of Chist whom he supposedly represents but his master is not Chist but satan and wants a one world dominance
Perhaps there is a sort of “shadow government” at the Vatican, and Francis was put there by design…….like Obama; to destroy the essence of the vicar of Christ and…….the message.
The Pope is a moron. This is the same man who said sinners just disappear when they die, no Heaven or Hell. Just poof and they’re gone. He’s a nonsensical idiot!
In the old psychiatric classification : moron is not the worst. The lowest in the classification is the idiot.
It is time for Pie Francis to retire! He does not believe or follow the Cristian beliefs. Antichrist or False prophet, I think the Catholic Church needs for him to retire. Let us go into the next Conclave please!
Time for Pope Francis to resign. Let’s move to a Coclave to choose the next Pope
The pope is the leader of the Catholic Church formed by Jesus Christ himself when appointing Peter the apostle the first pope. Upon this rock I will build my church. The name Peter means rock. The Catholic Church is an apastolic church teaching the masses that Jesus is the true body of the church. The body of Christ is only consumed within the Catholic mass. Jesus said do this in remembrance of me. Don’t believe a word of a bishop that is actually stationed in China by the pope himself. Pope Francis is for the poor and under privileged. Before he was the pope in Brazil he refused to live in the bishops catholic cathedral and lived in a 1 bedroom apartment and gave his extra income to the poor of Brazil