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Meet The Self-Made Billionaire Who Is Sacrificing It All For God

Lai is a Catholic, although he wasn t always one. He met the faith through his wife, a pious woman he accompanied to church, where he heard the homilies of Cardinal Joseph Zen and in 1997 was baptized into the church by the same great man.

Today Lai is in a prison cell in Hong Kong, and the Communist dictatorship has once again seized one of his life s works, shutting down his newspaper. But of all that has changed since he was a young boy, persecution by the communists has remained a constant. If you stand by your faith, in China there s no way around it. I have a soul, he said in early 2019, and so the truth lives in him.

No one can say we didn t fight& Prison life is the pinnacle of my life. I am completely at peace.

via thefederalist.com

Not all Catholic priests and bishops are child molesters and communists. Many are heroes, like Cardinal Zen. I pray that through a concordance of miraculous circumstances, Zen will be our next pope. You never know. As for Lai, pray for him as well. Bear in mind, everyone can pray, whether you believe in anything or not. Frequently, I don’t believe in anything, but it still seems to work, near as I can tell.