This is a very good article which should be read by many. Unfortunately, I think that some here will read it but not comment and hope that it drops into obscurity as the account is unpalatable. If the guests of Catholic parliamentarians engaged in a lawful private gathering in Portugal can be harassed by staff from a foreign embassy in an attempt to stop the meeting mentioned, it will happen elsewhere in the western world and such is the present position of most western leaders, lay and clerical, regarding Catholicism, protection as rightly provided by the Portuguese state against the might of China for Catholics can not be guaranteed.