Hong Kong, China, the Vatican, and Maoism

Carrie Lam is a product of the Second Vatican Council.

“From day one, I have said this opportunity is given by God. Because if you analyse it rationally, you may not want to do this job – there are a lot of difficulties, sacrifices that may need to be made. But as God called upon me – to say that I am needed to continue serving Hong Kong society at this moment – I made my response.”

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“I’ve said in public that regardless of their political affiliations, as long as that individual has the ability and is willing to serve, and his philosophy is aligned with mine, then I would be more than happy to invite him or her to join the politically appointed team.”

Newly elected Carrie Lam reiterates that God called upon her to run, as she begins forming cabinet, Hong Kong Free Press, 30 March 2017

The CCP appointed the Novus Ordite, Carrie Lam, as the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.

“Working in the SAR government [Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China], when you insist on doing the work of righteousness, you’ll often be given a hard time.”

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“Some said that the eighth blessing applies very well to me – it says, ‘blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’ – there is already a place reserved for me in heaven.”

Chief Sec. Carrie Lam says there is a place reserved for her in heaven, Hong Kong Free Press, 2 November 2015

How does one become a bishop when he espouses something which is anti-Catholic?

“Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese,” a senior Vatican official has said.

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.

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As part of the diplomacy efforts, Bishop Sánchez Sorondo visited the country. “What I found was an extraordinary China,” he said. “What people don’t realise is that the central value in China is work, work, work. There’s no other way, fundamentally it is like St Paul said: he who doesn’t work, doesn’t eat.”

‘China is the best implementer of Catholic social doctrine,’ says Vatican bishop, Catholic Herald, 6 February 2018

Francis, “The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”  Is Francis then a Maoist?

“I would like to go to Beijing, I love China.” 

  

Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from Japan, Catholic News Agency, 26 November 2019

The fruits of the Vatican’s pro-communist China stance.

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The Carnival of Viareggio featured a float named ‘il Che GuePapa’ created out of paper mâché by the brothers Vanni (Alessandro & Paolo).  As can be seen in the assortment of photos (above and below), Francis is wearing the revolutionary beret of the anti-Catholic communist, Ernesto "Che" Guevara Lynch, while holding a communist ‘hammer and sickle’ crozier and giving the communist clenched power-fist.  The paper mâché Francis is also surrounded by some of the worst communist ‘heroes’ — Mao Tse-tung, Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), and Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz — who are portrayed ironically as cherubim.  Recall, that Francis edited a book of dialogues between Fidel Castro and John Paul II many years ago, said in interview, “The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended”, and in another interview while laughing that, “I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel [...] Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: 'but then you are Christian'”.  People dressed in the clothing of religious danced and gyrated in front of the float and wore giant necklaces which were a version of the ‘hammer & sickle crucifix’ presented to Francis in July 2015 by Juan Evo Morales Ayma, the socialist president of Bolivia.

Francis meeting with delegation from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio, November 2016.

Interestingly, the plans for the float had to be submitted before and were approved by the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio back in August 2016.  Later that year in November, a delegation of forty people from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio met with Francis after a general audience. They presented Francis with many gifts among them a was the hat of Burlamacco, the official mascot of the Carnival of Viareggio.   Francis joked that Burlamacco’s hat reminded him of a bishop’s mitre. He told the delegation that he had been to Viareggio before as he has a relative in nearby Pescia. The delegation invited Francis to the Carnival of Viareggio to which he replied, “Who knows?”  No word if the group informed him that he was to be one of the festivities.  Even if Francis failed to show up in the flesh at the Carnival of Viareggio, he was most certainly there in spirit!

Never one to let an opportunity to make a macabre jest of the Catholic Faith pass

by, Francis said the red hat of Burlamacco reminded him of a bishop’s mitre.

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The proposal sent in by the Vanni brothers and approved by the

Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio in August 2016.

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The delegation of forty people from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio including the float drivers sit in Francis’ private box at his general audience and chat with him (12 November 2016).

the ‘il Che GuePapa’ float

Francis meets with another Communist

Francis met earlier today with Alexis Tsipras a communist and head of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece.  Tsipras is a Greek MP and the Leader of the Opposition.  According to Wikipedia, 

His domestic partner is Peristera Batziana, an electrical and computer engineer. The two met in 1987 at the Ampelokipoi Branch High School and both became members of the Communist Youth of Greece. They live together with their two sons.[15] Their youngest son's middle name is Ernesto, a tribute to Che Guevara. Tsipras is an avid football fan and, having grown up near the stadium, supports Panathinaikos, attending every home game that he can.[4]

The SYRIZA party is a coalition of democratic socialists, leftie green groups, Maoists, Trotskyites, and euro-communist organizations.  The SYRIZA platform includes, an increase immigration to Greece, introducing hate-crime laws, legislating queer "marriage", ending the deportation of illegal immigrants, and reducing the Greek armed forces significantly.  

It has been reported that Francis and Tsipras met to discuss a "crisis of values."  The values they talked about included measures to help prevent deaths in Mediterranean Sea of the crossing illegal Muslim immigrants from Africa, global warming, achieving peace in the Middle East, and how they could save not only the banks of Europe but also the people.  Protothema News has the rest of the official story, 

Moreover Pope Francis asked Alexis Tsipras to send his regards to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew adding that he was looking forward to meeting him at the Phanar in Istanbul during the celebration of Apostle Andrew’s day.

“We had the opportunity to discuss about the economic crisis, which is primarily a crisis of values” said Alexis Tsipras after the meeting, adding that they talked also about “the need to have peace in the world”.

“We asked him to continue fighting and speaking for the human rights and dignity and to take the initiative for finding a solution for the Middle East crisis”, said Mr. Tsipras adding that he “told him about the dramatic situation of Greece, which after four years of strict austerity is still in deep recession”.

No word has come out, if the two discussed their favorite passion football or if jerseys were exchanged.  One cannot make stuff like this up.  Less than seventy years ago, it would have been unfathomable to have a communist to the Vatican as a guest unless it were to chew the man out and he would have been brought in through a back door, not as a guest!  With Francis however this is becoming more of an every day occurrence.  Recall what Francis was reported to have said in June by Reuters,

"I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel," he said, citing Biblical passages about the need to help the poor, the sick and the needy.

"Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: 'but then you are Christian'," he said, laughing.

And don't forget when Francis was asked what it felt like to be called a "Marxist" by Andrea Tornelli in an interview he answered,

“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”

Which lead us to ask is the Leninist ideology correct, maybe Stalinism, perhaps Gramscism, or is it Neo-Gramscism?  Dear reader, also notice how Francis doesn't come out and condemn communism in the above statement, just Marxism.  Michael Voris and his ilk will tell you Francis is surrounded by a "super-force" of evil bishops who are thwarting his ever move.  How about reporting on the un-Catholic actions carried out by Francis for a change Mike?

Francis meets with communist from Greece

"If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian." 

- Fidel Castro -