CHINA ASKS WHO IS THE POPE: XI JINPING OR LEO XIV?

 

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Ground under the collective heel of the Communist Party and the conciliar, Synodal Vatican regime, the persecuted underground Church in China has exercised what might be termed "The SSPX Option". (Pace and thank you, Elizabeth Yore).

In what a bishop in that benighted country calls a "state of emergency" (sounds familiar?) underground Chinese Catholics have secretly consecrated - without papal mandate - at least 10 bishops, to protect the teaching of Christ and His Church against the predations of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA). Just as the Society of St Pius (SSPX) had to do, in opposition to the errors of the post-conciliar church worldwide. 



A brainchild of the Machiavellian Cardinal Pietro Parolin in a secret deal brokered with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by sex abuser Cardinal 'Ted' McCarrick, the CCPA  is seen by thinking Catholics as a puppet for the Sinicised Marxist/Leninist government which continues to close churches, ban Bibles and tear down public crucifixes. 

As reported by Fr David Nix in The Catholic Monitor, an exiled Chinese dissident, Guo Wengui, has claimed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) makes an annual payment of $2 billion to the Vatican to keep the latter silent on human rights abuses taking place under the communist regime. The contents of the deal remain secret but many media outlets had revealed that it allowed the Chinese government to play a role in the appointment of bishops in the country. The Vatican has not denied the allegation. https://www.indiablooms.com/phoenix/public/world/whistleblower-claims-chinese-communist-party-pays-off-vatican-2-billion-annually-for-its-silence-on-chinese-atrocities/details

Open resistance to the Party, or refusal to join the Patriotic Association, has meant years of imprisonment for faithful priests. We can only guess at their jail conditions, which likely resemble those for Jimmy Lai, the Catholic convert, pro-democracy activist whose son says is being baked alive in a Chinese cell. U.S. President Donald Trump has advocated for Lai’s release and  reportedly spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, 'Pope Leo XIV'  "can't comment". And why not? An informed guess would say that he doesn't want to upset the CCP and its secret deal with Rome. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-leo-says-he-cant-comment-on-jimmy-lais-prison-sentence-for-criticizing-

Robert Prevost/Leo XIV - a Chicago Dem 

Parolin asserted that his China-Vatican deal means "there are no longer any illegitimate bishops" - implying, disgracefully, that communist bishops must be fully accepted by the Chinese faithful. The secret consecrations of faithful bishops, then, has put Rome in a quandary: were they done in accord with the will of God? If they are, doesn't that put the bishops appointed by the CCP and rubber-stamped by the Vatican - and the conciliar church itself - in a very poor light? If they were not God's will, why weren't they excommunicated instantly for 'disobedience', like the SSPX? Because even Trad Inc can understand that these heroic Catholics are acting to preserve the Catholic religion - like the SSPX.

The parallel with the 'illegal' episcopal consecrations by the SSPX on July 1 at Écône is embarrassingly obvious. Ironically, it was consecrations promoted by the Chinese regime outside the Holy See which prompted Pius XII in 1951 to raise the penalty for same, in 1951, to excommunication latae sententiae for both consecrator and consecrated. Perversely, that law is now used to punish Catholics for trying to preserve the priesthood while their persecutors in the CCP enjoy impunity.

However, as the CCPA have been getting off scot-free with appointing new bishops for years (with Rome's retrospective rubber-stamping) it's hardly rational to characterise the SSPX - as Trad Inc and Rome love to do - as 'disobedient'.  

What's relevant also, is that the Church in official mainland China parishes is conciliar, Novus Ordo, and Synodal. Like the CCPA, it's a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party. In other words, the Ape of the Church is colluding, in China, with what Our Lady of Fatima called "the errors of Russia". China's Catholics could be forgiven for asking - as they do - "Who is the pope? Xi Jinping (習近平) or Pope Leo XIV?" 

Meanwhile, the venerated Cardinal Joseph Zen (infamously snubbed by Pope Francis) calls Parolin's Sino-Vatican deal an “incredible betrayal” of China’s Catholics. He has accused the Vatican of “selling out” the Catholics of China. 

What justification can Leo XIV offer - apart from adhering, like a good globalist, to the agenda of the United Nations in the West - for his maintenance of a 'deal' made eight years ago this month, by his predecessor Francis with the Communist Party, which amounted to a betrayal of underground Catholics in China? When mere membership of the Party (let alone collusion) was forbidden by successive pontiffs prior to the Second Vatican Council? 

"Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" (2 Cor 6, 14-16)

Cardinal Parolin (centre) to a 't'

 

From Riaan Van Zyl at Integrity Magazine:

The High Priest of Hypocrisy, Leo XIV, has once again given Catholics another reason to ask who is really directing the Church in Communist China.

 

Any observer with two eyes and one brain cell can, of course, guess the answer.

 

On August 31, Paolo Liu Honggang was consecrated Bishop of Datong in Shanxi province. The Vatican confirmed that Leo had “appointed” Liu on August 10 after approving his candidacy “within the framework” of the secretive Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.

 

These “appointments” are usually little more than the official ratification of candidates already acceptable to the Communist Red Dragon. Since the text of Cardinal Parolin’s Vatican-China agreement has never been made public, the precise mechanics of the process cannot be independently established.

 

Liu is the third Chinese bishop ordained in three months, and his consecration was reportedly the seventh episcopal consecration to take place under Leo since the 2025 conclave.

 

The machinery that produces these bishops within the state-recognized church structure — the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) — casts one of the darkest shadows over the synodal post-conciliar “church.”

 

The CCPA operates under the supervision of the Communist regime and explicitly commits itself to supporting the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One of the initiatives that flows from this relationship is a program called “Sinicization.”

 

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has described Sinicization as the “complete subordination of religious groups to the CCP’s political agenda and Marxist vision for religion.”

 

Recent testimony collected by historian Anthony E. Clark and published at The Catholic World Report painted an alarming picture of the situation confronting Chinese Catholics. His reporting described an environment in which government influence over ecclesiastical life has intensified to such an extent that underground Catholics fear for the very integrity and survival of the Faith.

 

Most disturbing is the reported response of underground Catholics themselves. According to Clark’s source — a Chinese bishop unaffiliated with the Patriotic Association — at least ten bishops have been secretly consecrated in Fujian province alone amid fears that an episcopate independent of Communist control could eventually disappear.

 

The bishop reportedly described the situation there as a “state of emergency” and said the consecrations were undertaken to assure the survival of the Church.

 

The precise canonical circumstances of those consecrations remain unclear, including whether any possessed secret papal mandates, as Clark’s source does not publicly identify the bishops, their consecrators, or the circumstances of their ordinations. Nevertheless, their reported motivation is extraordinary as they are attempting to ensure the Catholic faith survives under Communist domination.

 

Thus, we see obvious parallels with what is currently taking place in the post-conciliar church, with true Catholics such as the SSPX and sedevacantists effectively forced “underground” and left with no choice but to consecrate Catholic bishops without apostate Rome’s permission.

 

Against this background emerges the simple fact that Leo’s continuation of the Vatican-China policy is completely indefensible. The Provisional Agreement was concluded under Francis in 2018, and its text remains unpublished. It was renewed in 2020 and 2022, and then, most recently, in October 2024 for another four years.

 

Although Leo did not sign that renewal himself, he continues to lend it legitimacy by repeatedly implementing it through episcopal appointments instead of repudiating or substantially challenging the controversial experiment inherited from Francis and the aforementioned Cardinal Parolin.

 

 

Beijing itself declared after Leo’s first Chinese episcopal appointment that the agreement was being “smoothly implemented.” China’s Foreign Ministry said in June 2025 that the two sides had increased “mutual understanding and trust” and that Beijing wished to continue improving China-Vatican relations.

One of the agreement’s greatest critics, Cardinal Joseph Zen, famously described the Vatican’s accommodation with Beijing as an “incredible betrayal” of faithful Chinese Catholics.

 

There are also other parallels between the Synodal Church and the situation in China that are difficult to ignore.

 

In China, the CCPA nominally remains the visible, state-recognized expression of the “Catholic” Church, but in reality it operates under a Communist political system that demands conformity with its ideology.

 

A slightly softer, but disturbingly similar, reality exists within the matrix of the Bergolian and now Prevostian ecclesial project.

 

 

While Leo and his Synodal Church assiduously retain the optics of the Catholic Church, he enthusiastically has continued the language of “ecological conversion,” synodality, and international multilateralism inherited from Francis.

For the United Nations COP30 climate conference last year, Leo’s message explicitly urged states to accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It called for “cohesive and forward-looking multilateralism” and advocated the development of a new “centered international financial architecture.”

Little doubt therefore exists that the Vatican has become a willing and enthusiastic puppet of the United Nations and its ideological program.

 

Likewise in China, Communist authorities demand a Catholicism compatible with socialist political priorities, while in the West, an increasingly bureaucratic and synodal ecclesiastical establishment is remarkably comfortable speaking the language of UN-style environmentalism, global governance, and technocratic control.

 

In both cases, the supernatural mission of the Church has been subordinated — if it were possible — to the fashionable political program of the age.

 

Both Chinese underground Catholics and Traditional Catholics across the world have become victims of the Vatican’s obsession with reshaping itself according to the World instead of the opposite.https://integritymagazine.org/2026/09/01/chinas-patriotic-church-and-leos-synodal-church-are-driving-faithful-catholics-underg

Our Lady of Sheshan
Gary Thu Kai Kui



Our Lady of Sheshan, please pray for the Church in China