Want to Know Where the Vatican is Taking the Church?

....Just look at China!

Where....

• Children under 18 may not go to Church...

• Underground bishops (legitimate) are forced to step down in favor of bishops appointed by an atheistic Communist government...

• Where Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin's ostpolitik with an anti-religious Communist government includes signing on to the Communist agenda...

It is the abandonment of the Catholic faithful of China in favor of a false unity that pretends to be making progress in this poor country. 

It is shameful and a sellout of Catholic truth!

Cardinal Joseph Zen is the prophetic voice of the suffering Church in China. This 88 year old Catholic warrior will not be silent. His voice graphically reveals the moral bankruptcy of Vatican policy. 

The Passion Begins.... For the Underground Church in China

Bishop Guo of the underground church
allegedly refused to concelebrate Easter Mass
with excommunicated bishop.

Bishop Guo, underground bishop of Mindong, was arrested yesterday along with his diocesan chancellor. It seems appropriate that this terrible situation is taking place during passion week! 

What is especially tragic, however, is the part the Vatican is playing in the persecution. The headlines below highlight the betrayal of the poor, persecuted Catholics of China who have risked much to continue praying in the underground Church that remained faithful to the Holy See. In today's modern Church, it seem no martyrdom goes unpunished. The real bishops are being asked to step down so government-appointed bishops of the faux Catholic Patriotic Association can take their places. Is Et tu, Brute the proper reaction or Do you betray your master with a kiss? Perhaps both.

Sunday Meditation: Holy Week Begins....On Betrayal and the Church in China

Our Lady of China, pray for the
persecuted underground Church.

Holy Week begins. The betrayal is imminent, a betrayal that continues throughout history like the expanding ripples in a lake. Judas isn't far from us. He lives in our hearts and we can see him in the larger events occurring around us as I realized once again this morning with sorrow.

I was reading a LifeSiteNews article reprinted in The Wanderer about Cardinal Zen and his dismay over the Vatican betraying China's underground Church and recognizing the unfaithful bishops excommunicated by previous popes.

What a head-shaker!

The suffering Church in China must be feeling the same betrayal as Catholics in England watching their bishops bend the knee to a lustful monarch who began the systematic dismantling of the Church. Except for St. John Fisher, I'm not aware of a single courageous English bishop who defended the faith.