China’s Religious Persecution and the Vatican’s Complicit Silence
The Catholic News Agency portal reports on a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing where witnesses detailed Beijing’s systematic destruction of religious freedom. Former U.S. Ambassador Sam Brownback emphasized that China’s detention of 10 Catholic bishops constitutes a national security threat, while ChinaAid founder Bob Fu described Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents threatening his family in Texas. Grace Jin Drexel testified about her father Pastor Ezra Jin’s arrest, noting his underground church served tens of thousands before being crushed by authorities. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) argued that U.S. credibility on religious freedom requires first addressing domestic issues like migrant deportations affecting Catholic communities.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Persecution
The cited article reduces China’s persecution of Catholics to a matter of “human rights” and “national security,” omitting the theological dimension (status animarum) entirely. This mirrors the modernist error condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejected the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By framing the conflict through secular geopolitics rather than Christ’s Social Kingship, the analysis ignores the CCP’s fundamental hatred for the One True Church – a hatred shared by all regimes denying the Regnum Christi (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925).
The Unspoken Vatican-China Betrayal
Nowhere does the article mention the 2018 Vatican-Beijing Agreement whereby Bergoglio’s regime betrayed underground Catholics by recognizing CCP-appointed “bishops.” This omission whitewashes the conciliar sect’s complicity in persecution – precisely the “silence about supernatural matters” that constitutes “the gravest accusation” per IMPLEMENTATION guidelines. St. Pius X’s encyclical Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) condemned such modernist equivocation, noting that when the Church “listens” rather than teaches (Error 6), it becomes an accomplice to tyranny.
McGovern’s Heretical Equivalence
Rep. McGovern’s claim that U.S. deportations undermine religious freedom advocacy constitutes theological nonsense. His statement that “our voice would have more effect if the U.S. protected religious freedom of people living in the U.S.” inverts Catholic principles by suggesting temporal authorities must earn moral credibility through humanitarianism rather than submit to divine law. As Pius XI taught, rulers must recognize that “the entire government of public schools… belongs to [the Church] so far that no other authority whatsoever shall be recognized as having any right to interfere” (Syllabus of Errors, Error 45). The Massachusetts Democrat’s “Catholic” identity is rendered null by his endorsement of religious indifferentism – a heresy explicitly condemned by Pius IX (Errors 15-18).
Underground Churches’ Doomed Compromise
Drexel’s description of her father’s church as merely “asking to be free from the Communist Party” reveals the fatal flaw of post-conciliar “persecuted churches”: they seek freedom from the state rather than demanding the state’s submission to Christ the King. This naturalistic conception of religious liberty was anathematized by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) as “insanity” (deliramentum). Authentic Catholic resistance would follow the Cristeros’ example – taking up arms under the banner Viva Cristo Rey! – not begging secular legislatures for pity.
Illusion of Bipartisan Solutions
The hearing’s bipartisan veneer (Cruz and Merkley’s joint appeal) perpetuates the Americanist heresy condemned in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae (1899). By suggesting Congressional action could resolve divinely-ordained persecution, witnesses implicitly deny that “the peace of Christ is only to be found in the Kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The very notion of U.S. politicians “protecting” religious freedom abroad constitutes blasphemous usurpation of the Church’s exclusive spiritual authority (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 19).
Theological Treason of Conciliar Silence
Most damning is the article’s failure to note that not one conciliar “bishop” has publicly demanded release of the 10 imprisoned bishops – proof of the Vatican II sect’s apostasy. As the False Fatima Apparitions document observes, modern churchmen “ignore the warnings of St. Pius X against ‘enemies within’” while fabricating external threats. True Catholics recall St. Thomas More’s words before his martyrdom: “I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.” Until the underground church rejects all compromise with Beijing and the Bergoglian antipopes, their suffering remains spiritually sterile.
Source:
China’s ‘assault on religious freedom’ threatens U.S., congressional commission told (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025