The Remnant Newspaper – Open Letter to Pope Francis from Chinese Faithful: “You are killing us!”
Dear Pope Francis,
We, the awakening Catholics in the underground and official churches in China, write you this open letter to lament your betraying our Church and destroying our nation.
Since 1949 communist takeover, countless martyrs chose to sacrifice everything to remain loyal to the Holy See till today. Pope Pius XII, Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have shown appreciation, encouragement and comfort to us. They condemned the evil of communism, confirmed illegality of the Patriotic Association , and admonished resistance to immoral cooperation with CCP.
Pope Francis, here is how you betray us the loyal faithful:
- You are not ordaining new bishops for the underground community. You are collaborating with CCP to push the loyal faithful to extinction. Some began to ordain bishops without your approval.
- You encouraged clergies to register with the government and become part of the schismatic CCP-controlled patriotic Church. (You admitted the schismatic nature of the official church in your talk with Cardinal Zen.)
- You turned seven excommunicated bishops at least two having children to legal and put them on dioceses by expelling faithful underground bishops to vacate sees for your seven unrepentant CCP puppets.
- You refused to advocate for Bishop Su Zhiming, disappeared and last seen in 2003; Bishop Cui Tai, disappeared and tortured; Father Liu Honggeng, house-arrested for almost 20 years; Father Yu Heping, outspoken and young, drown himself to death according to CCP; and many others&
- You refused to condemn massive demolition of churches and the ban of children to churches, no matter official or underground.
- You refused to condemn the illegal installation of Bishop of Shanghai and other official bishops/priests, such as those invited to attend your Synods and Father Zhang Tianlu of Shenzhen who exalt Xi Jinping s atheist thoughts and cruel policies.
Sounds pretty bad.