Chinese Cardinal Calls Pope Francis A ‘Betrayer Of Christ’ For Upcoming Deal With Communist Beijing

The most senior Chinese Catholic has slammed a potential rapprochement between the Vatican and Beijing, saying it would be “betraying Jesus Christ”, amid a thaw in more than six decades of bitter relations.

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:4,5 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Cardinal Zen should not be in the least bit surprised that Pope Francis is preparing to sell him and his people out to the Communist government of China, that’s exactly what you should expect from the Whore of Babylon. For decades, preachers like Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland have been feeding people back into the Roman system and working with Communist regimes. Billy Graham used to openly brag about his relationship with the Vatican and Communists. The Bible calls the Vatican system the Whore of Babylon, and so it is. 

Talk of a deal between the two sides has been building for months, with some saying the diplomatic coup for Pope Francis would be resolving the highly controversial issue of allowing China’s Communist government to have a hand in selecting bishops.

But Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 84-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong, has been an outspoken critic, saying any agreement where Beijing would have a hand in approving clergy would be “a surrender”.

Billy Graham bragging about his cozy relationship with Communist governments and the Vatican system:

Listen to the words of Billy Graham as he talks about his alliance with the Vatican Whore of Babylon, and his friendship with Communist governments.

“Maybe the pope is a little naive, he doesn’t have the background to know the Communists in China,” Zen said at the Salesian school in Hong Kong where he still teaches. “The pope used to know the persecuted Communists [in Latin America], but he may not know the Communist persecutors who have killed hundreds of thousands.”

Chinese Catholics are free to go to mass and attend government-sanctioned churches, but barred from proselytising. The state-controlled China Catholic Patriotic Association controls the church and appoints bishops, currently without any input from the Vatican.

Joseph Cardinal Zen speaks of the Chinese Martyrs at International Eucharistic Congress 2016

With “fake freedom” under a proposed deal, priests could more easily preach and more churches would open, Zen predicted, but “it’s only the impression of freedom, it’s not real freedom, the people sooner or later will see the bishops are puppets of the government and not really the shepherds of the flock.”

“The official bishops are not really preaching the gospel,” Zen added “They are preaching obedience to Communist authority.”

“You cannot go into negotiations with the mentality ‘we want to sign an agreement at any cost’, then you are surrendering yourself, you are betraying yourself, you are betraying Jesus Christ,” Zen lamented. source

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