Onepeterfive.com publishes explosive letter Cardinal Zen has permitted to be made public, which he sent to fellow Cardinals in September 2019 concerni

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I read this earlier tonight as well! Oh, my heart is heavy! I feel… frustrated. Helpless. But also very concerned about our current Pope. Every time I think he couldn’t go any farther… he does.

This other article is from just over a year ago (Nov. 2018) but it shows how the persecution of Catholics in China is getting so terrifying.

The Vatican’s Agreement With China Looks Even Worse Now - by Nina Shea](The Vatican’s Agreement With China Looks Even Worse Now - by Nina Shea
But all 12 million Chinese Catholics, not only the underground half, are suppressed. Youth under age 18 are banned from churches, under new religious-law regulations. In September, the Communist Party previewed a cybersecurity law that will censor from the internet mention by nongovernmental sites of Catholicism, including the Mass and baptism.

The Catechism is subject to censorship. Online Bible sales were banned in April. Catholic sources deem it an “all-around strangulation” of evangelization. Some Catholic churches have replaced Jesus’ picture with President Xi’s, and the congregation is led in songs of praise to the Communist Party.

China’s new Orwellian social credit score system, to control behavior and based on government-gathered data, also poses a threat to the Church. Civil authorities in Zhejiang and Jiangxi Sept. 26 forced their employees, including in schools and hospitals, to pledge not to hold any “religious beliefs.”

Since July, priests in Henan must register and turn over the numbers of the faithful and their socioeconomic conditions to the government. Surveillance cameras are inside some churches and police are outside. Chinese Catholics will think twice about going to confession when their priests must report on them. Clerics will not dare to preach Church teachings against abortion and the death penalty.

Being too enthusiastic about religion can also be punished, as Father Liu Jiangdong, from the government-recognized Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Zhengzhou (Henan), found out on Sept. 23. The priest was detained for a week and then suspended from the priesthood by the Patriotic Association, reportedly for organizing too many youth and elderly parish groups.
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… It’s not just China of course. But this is a great example of what is becoming common-place around the world.
 
Wasn’t the chief architect of this agreement Mr. Theodore McCarrick (the former cardinal)?

If so, the results are simply fruit of the poisoned tree!
 
He also submitted a dubia, which like the famous dubia submitted by the four Cardinals about Amoris Laetitia, has gone unanswered. It is also very interesting that he states that he believes that the agreement that was signed was an exact agreement that Pope Benedict had refused to sign during his pontificate. I have little doubt now that this whole ordeal will go down as one of the biggest, if not the biggest blunder of this current pontificate. The parallels with the Concordat signed with Germany in 1933 are striking.
 
This is incredibly sad. May God be with our Catholic brothers and sisters in China.
 
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