EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Insider 'JP Freedom' Exposes Pope Francis' Communist Pact
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After the 2018 "Sacred Deal" between China and the Vatican, Pope Francis and Xi Jinping struck a deal to allow Catholics in China to practice their faith without fear of persecution. The deal was brokered by Cardinal John McCarrick, the disgraced former cardinal who served as Pope John Paul II's proxy for the Roman Catholic Church in China. But after the deal was signed, Chinese Catholics began to speak out against the Chinese government's persecution of Catholics.
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After the 2018 sacred deal, the Pope Francis sacred deal with Beijing,
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Hey, my friends, I've got a really special guest for you today.
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And yes, we're going to have to shield his face and things like that
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because it's very dangerous for him to speak up.
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He is someone who comes from mainland China, whose family is still there,
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who is speaking out, and he's doing so at the risk of his own safety and so on.
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He needs to make known what's actually going on there.
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We're going to focus in our talk with him on what the Catholics in China are experiencing,
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I wanted to give you a glimpse into what's been going on.
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And the Vatican, as many of you will know, has been having this sort of agreement with China.
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I guess it was done in the hopes that there would be some lessening of the persecution of Chinese Catholics.
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So to make an official agreement, it was brokered by former so-called Cardinal McCarrick,
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many of whom, many of you know him as the sexual abuser.
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But he brokered this deal for Pope Francis with the Vatican in China, and it is a horrendous deal.
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Let me give you some of the expert testimony on it.
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First of all, from Stephen Mosher, who most of you know as the great researcher on China
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who first discovered the horrific one-child policy.
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He, of course, is a close collaborator with LifeSite News.
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And these are quotes from Steve Mosher in an article he did for LifeSite News that you can go check out.
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He said, as he made clear in a speech on religion in December 2021,
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Xi Jinping intends to bring every religion in China, Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Taoist, and Buddhist,
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under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party and make them serve its purposes.
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Any religion that does not teach its members to love the party and socialism is a backward religion engaged in illegal religious activities, Xi said,
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Religions should only conduct their activities in approved places of worship
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and must not interfere with social life or the education of the young.
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it goes without saying that Xi Jinping intends to crush the underground church
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and that's the name of the agreement, the Sino-Vatican Agreement, for this purpose.
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But it is also clear that by preventing the faith from being passed on to the next generation,
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he intends the same fate for Catholicism in general.
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In the meantime, the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association,
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which is the Chinese Communist Party-approved church,
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will be used to promote the Chinese Communist Party's political goals and ideology,
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instead of leading to a new birth of religious freedom for Catholics in China,
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is instead being used by the CCP for its own purposes.
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it is now clear to decapitate the church hierarchy by slow-rolling the appointment of bishops,
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while at the same time slowly strangling Catholicism itself out of existence.
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and this is, his opinion and take on this, of course, is very, very well informed,
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but it's also corroborated by a member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,
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by what the renewed Sino-Vatican deal will mean for Chinese Catholics.
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I think that these agreements have not produced any improvement in religious freedom for Catholics in China,
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and I think that the Holy See should really rethink its decision to dance with Xi on this whole business.
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So, taking this issue with the Vatican and allowing the CCP to have a say in the choice of bishops for Chinese Catholics,
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and he was appointed to the Commission on International Religious Freedom
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after more than two decades of experience in the field.
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is an independent, bipartisan federal commission,
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which closely monitors issues of religious freedom throughout the world,
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and it publishes an annual report on recommendations to the U.S. government and Congress.
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recommended that the U.S. re-designate China as a country of particular concern
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for engaging in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom
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as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act.
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Now, the key findings on China were that in 2021,
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The government continued to vigorously implement its cynicization of religion policy
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and demand that religious groups and their adherents
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support the Chinese Communist Party's rule and ideology.
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the State Administration for Religious Affairs,
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a government agency under direct control of the CCP's United Front Work Department,
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and other agencies issued new legal measures imposing further restrictions on clergy,
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religious schools, and religious content on the Internet.
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Although China recognizes Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, Taoism,
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adherents of groups with perceived foreign influence,
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house church Protestants, Uyghurs, and other Muslims,
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such as Fulangang and the Church of the Almighty God,
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Despite the Vatican-China agreement on bishops' appointments,
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authorities continue to harass and detain underground Catholic priests
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who refuse to join the state-controlled Catholic association,
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such as Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhou of Shijang, Hibai Province.
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Moreover, authorities throughout China routinely raided churches,
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The government also continued to demolish church buildings and crosses,
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including the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Xinjiang,
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The report noted that China is officially an atheist state.
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The CCP, whose members are banned from believing in or practicing any faith,
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it has become increasingly hostile toward religion,
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implementing campaigns to Sinicize Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Christianity,
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These policies require religious groups to support the CCP,
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including by altering their religious teachings
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Both registered and unregistered religious groups and individuals
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face harassment, detention, arrest, imprisonment, and other abuses.
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who is arrested by the Chinese Communist Party authorities
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under the terms of China's draconian 2020 national security law.
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and the number one person whom the Vatican used to rely on
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not even shown the new Vatican agreement with China.
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He was found guilty, that is, by the Communist Party,
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And Zen and his fellow defendants had pled not guilty.
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an accusation of collusion with foreign forces.
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all the persecuted Christians and freedom fighters,
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