This…
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, praised the Communist state as “extraordinary”, saying: “You do not have shantytowns, you do not have drugs, young people do not take drugs”. Instead, there is a “positive national conscience”.
The bishop told the Spanish-language edition of Vatican Insider that in China “the economy does not dominate politics, as happens in the United States, something Americans themselves would say.”
Bishop Sánchez Sorondo said that China was implementing Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ better than many other countries and praised it for defending Paris Climate Accord. “In that, it is assuming a moral leadership that others have abandoned”, he added.
He accused US president Donald Trump of being “manipulated” by global oil firms, and said that, as opposed to those who follow “liberal thought”, the Chinese are working for the greater good of the planet.
Sigh [1].
I’m not Catholic myself but I have a number of Catholic friends and I have to tell you that a good number of them will quietly agree that there’s a problem.
It strikes me that the quietly agreeing is part of the problem. It’s getting to the point where it’s time for another Reformation I believe.
Personally, I keep waiting for this Pope to tell us all how abortion is a sacrament of God…. And maybe that’s when Reformation II will take hold.