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These Last Days News - December 6, 2010

Cardinal Zen: There is No Religious Freedom in China...

"My children, I do not wish to place fear in your heart, but I cannot allow you to go forward without knowing what is happening about you. I assure you, My children, it is not productive to keep the truth from all and to substitute a climate of false hope and false peace. Know, My children, it is by peace, peace, peace--when the world cries peace the highest and the loudest, know that the destruction is at hand! Do you think there is honesty among thieves? Do you think there is honesty among atheists? Are you so blind, My children, not to recognize that communism has a great hold upon your country and the countries of the world?
   "O My children, I warned you many years ago, I warned you in Fatima that, unless you prayed and did penance, Russia and the agents of the sickle and the hammer would go throughout the world cutting down nations and bringing death, destruction, and slavery." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 2, 1977

AsiaNews reported on November 11, 2010:

At most in China, there is freedom of worship, but the government has in no way relaxed its policy of absolute control over religion and the Catholic Church, manipulating ordinations and corrupting bishops, even those legitimized by the pope.  This is the sad overview submitted by Card. Joseph Zen to his brother cardinals, on the day of discussion and reflection convoked  by the pope on 19 November, before the last consistory. In the text published in full, the retired bishop of Hong Kong emphasizes that there is hesitation even in Vatican policy, which may lead to a wrong interpretation of the directions of Benedict XVI, in his letter to the Catholics of China. NB: The notes are by AsiaNews.

I think it is my duty, given this special opportunity to inform my eminent brothers, that there is still no religious freedom in China. There is too much optimism around something that does not correspond to reality. Some have no way of knowing the reality, others close their eyes to reality, others still see religious freedom in a very simplistic way.

If you were to visit China (which I do not recommend, because your visits will be manipulated and exploited for propaganda purposes), you would see beautiful churches full of people who pray and sing, as in any other city in the Christian world. But religious freedom cannot just be reduced to freedom of worship.

It is much more. Some will protest this. Some people have written: "Beijing wants the bishops called for by the Pope”. If only it were true! The fact is that there is an ongoing “tug of war "in which I do not know who has conceded most ground.

The fact that recently there have been no illicit Episcopal ordinations is certainly a good thing. But when the Chinese government continues to raise its voice and our opportunities to investigate are so limited, plus the fear of increased unrest, there is a real risk that young unworthy bishops will be approved and reign for decades.

I wonder: why has no agreement yet been reached guaranteeing the Pope’s initiative in selecting bishops, while acknowledging the opinion of the Chinese government? I do not know how negotiations between the two sides are going, because we are not [among] the experts and we are not informed of anything. But among those experts who closely follow these events, the overall impression is that on "our" side there is a strategy of compromise, if not indefinite, at least for the time being

On the other side there is, however, no intention to change. The Chinese Communists have always stood by the religious policy of absolute control.

We all know that the Communists crush those who are weak, while in front of the firm, sometimes they can also change their attitude.

There was a papal letter to the Church in China, already more than three years ago, a masterpiece of balance between the clarity of truth and magnanimity for a dialogue. Unfortunately I have to say that [it] was not taken seriously by everyone.

There are those who are allowed to express themselves in a different way (see the so-called "explanatory notes" that accompanied the publication of the Letter), there are some who give a distorted interpretation to it (Fr. Jeroom Heyndrickx, CICM), citing expressions out of context.

This interpretation says that now everyone from the underground community should come out into the open [= register with the government]. But the pope did not say that. He said, yes, that the clandestine condition is not a normal one, but he also explains that those who feel forced to go underground often do so to avoid having to submit to an illegal structure.

The Holy Father said, yes, that individual bishops may consider whether to accept or seek the public recognition of the government and work out in the open, but not without first warning them of the danger that unfortunately the authorities "almost always" (this particle disappeared in Chinese translation prepared by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) would require conditions unacceptable to a Catholic conscience.

This misinterpretation - but one which of course found the consensus (in the Curia) of those who have direct responsibility for the Church in China - has created great confusion and caused painful divisions within the underground community.

This misinterpretation has been repudiated only after two years in two notes in the Compendium of the papal letter, edited by the Holy Spirit Study Centre in Hong Kong and approved by the Standing Committee of the Commission for the Church in China. Those notes make clear that the reconciliation recommended by the Holy Father must be a rapprochement of hearts between the two communities, but a unification (such as a "merger" as "transfer") is not yet possible given the unchanged policy of the government.

But even after this clarification, the work of some who have their hands on the steering wheel does not seem to have made any change in direction, as is easily seen in the tragic events in Baoding, in the last act of the installation of the poor Mgr. Francis An, a seriously ambiguous act, but on which there has been silence - from August 7 until today - leaving the community of the faithful bewildered, not only the underground, not only in Baoding, but in all of China.

The poor underground community is certainly the pars potior [the biggest] of our Church in China and today feels frustrated. While it found many words of encouragement in the Letter of the Holy Father, on the other hand it is treated as annoying, cumbersome, disruptive. It is clear that some would like to see it disappear, absorbed into the official one, that is, under the strict control of the government (so then there will be peace?).

But what condition is the "official" community in? We know that almost all of its bishops are legitimate or have been legitimized. But the humiliating and suffocating control of bodies which are not of the Church - Patriotic Association and Religious Affairs Bureau - has not changed at all.

When the Holy Father recognizes those bishops without requiring that they immediately peel off from the illegal structure, it is obviously in the hope that they will work from within to get rid of that structure, because this structure is not compatible with the nature of the Church. But after so many years what do we see?  A few bishops have lived up to that hope. Many have tried to survive, however, no small number of them, unfortunately, have failed to act in a manner consistent to their state of communion with the Pope. Some have thus described them: "happy to travel along in the carriage of the independent church and content to cry every now and then: Long live the pope! ".

The government that once used threats and punishments has now improved its methods of persecution: money (gifts, cars, restructuring of residences) and honors (members of the People's Congress, or political advisory body at different levels, with meetings, lunches, dinners and all that follows).

What is “our” strategy? I fear that often it is a false compassion that leaves our weaker brethren to slide down and become increasingly more and more enslaved.  The excommunications that are dealt out are "forgotten" on the sly, to the question: "Can we go to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first illegal ordination?" You reply: "Do everything possible not to go" (and of course they almost all went).

After lengthy discussion at the Commission for the Church in China, it was decided to send a clear order to the bishops not to attend the planned so-called "Assembly of Representatives of the Church in China", but there are still those who say, "we understand the difficulties the bishops meet by not going" .

Faced with these conflicting messages the government knows it can ignore the Pope's letter with impunity.

Dear brothers, I suppose you are aware of recent events: they are again trying to make an Episcopal ordination without pontifical mandate. For this reason they seized bishops, put pressure on others: they are grave offenses to religious freedom and personal dignity. I appreciate the timely, accurate and dignified statement of the Secretary of State. Among other things, there is reason to suspect that such attempts are not even from above, but from those who over the years have gained positions of power and benefits and do not want things to change.

Let us pray to Our Lady, Help of Christians, so that the eyes of the supreme leaders of our nation may be opened, so they may stop these evil and shameful moves and strive to allow our people true and full religious freedom, which also be to the benefit and honour of our motherland .

We pray that the strategy on "our" part can get back on track, so that it may honestly abide by the direction of the Letter of the Holy Father. Hopefully it is not too late for good change of direction.

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

MANPOWER  OF  CHINA
"Russia will also utilize the manpower of China as they make their thrust forward.
   "I realize, My child, that this message has a great emotional impact upon you. Do not be afeared." - Jesus, March 26, 1983

RUSSIA  &  CHINA
"Wars are a punishment for man's sins. Syria holds the key to peace at this time. However, I place in front of you, My children, a graphic picture for you to understand. It will be a parable for some, and some will turn away not willing to hear what Heaven has to say in these desperate times."
   Veronica-Our Lady is pointing up with Her finger, like this, to Her right side, and high above Her the sky is opening up-all the clouds are floating away and the sky is opening up, and I see a map of the Mideast. And then Our Lady is pointing up farther and that's another map of China and Russia. Our Lady is turning back now; She was looking upward also.
   Our Lady-"My child and My children, there are scoffers who will say there shall not be a Third World War. They do not know and cannot conceive of the plan of the Eternal Father. Be it known now that the Father has great heart for all His children, but when the sin reaches a peak only known to the Father, the amount of sin among mankind, then the Father will take action. He will allow you to go upon your reprobate way until there will be few souls to save upon earth, for the others will have died in battle and also at the hands of a corrupt generation of the young." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

FULL SCOURGE?
"I cry out, as your Mother, as a Mediatrix from God to mankind. Listen to Me, and act upon the directions from Heaven. Save yourselves and your children. There is little time left.
   "Shall you be given a full scourge of communism and slavery? Shall the elements be used against you to cleanse your world? Shall mankind feel the great heat and burning of the Ball of Redemption? You who laugh and scorn this message, the day will come when there shall be much gnashing of teeth and woe set upon the earth.
   "As it was in the days of Noe, so it is now that man never learns from his history. He repeats his mistakes over and over." - Our Lady, February 1, 1977 

COMPROMISE
"The red forces are gaining momentum in the Eternal City of Rome. Your country, the United States, and other countries of the world, in their measures of compromise to communism, shall fall to communism. You cannot choose a middle road. You must go either to the right or to the left.
   "Compromise will bring you nothing but despair and sorrow. Compromise, My children, will enslave you. Recognize what is happening within your country and many countries of your world. The Bear is plundering now and has plans to plunge forward throughout the world--the Red Bear, My children, known to you as the Red Brown Bear.
   "My Son has a plan. It is His manner to separate the sheep from the goats. Those men of great learning, who are ever searching but never coming to the truth, can they not recognize the signs of their times? Many minor catastrophes have entered upon your world, My children. They go by unnoticed as they build up into a greater catastrophe.
   "Why, My children, has it always been known as human nature to turn away from the truth until you are forced back upon your knees through suffering?
   "Many years have gone by, My children, since I tried to warn you at Fatima. My message was scorned then by many, discarded and hidden from the world, but My message now cannot be discarded or kept hidden, for you have reached now a point in your life, My children, your lifetime upon your earth, when your days are now being counted."  - Our Lady, February 10, 1977 

LIARS
"My children, I could give you many names that would encompass and describe the entrance of satan into your world: the forces of communism, the forces of atheism. O My children, what manner of words can describe the activity of these agents? They promote delusion: they promote heresy, defilement, misconceptions. And as satan is the father of all liars, they, too, are liars." - Our Lady, November 19, 1977 

YOU SHALL NOT ESCAPE
"O My children of the United States, do you not understand what is ahead for you? Your country, the United States, has not known what it is to suffer through destructive forces. My children, you shall not escape the destruction that the Bear of communism has set upon many countries in Europe and the world. You cannot compromise your Faith to save what there is left, for everything upon earth shall fall as rubble with the Chastisement. A ball of fire, a chastisement, a baptism of fire, is heading for mankind. Can you not understand?" - Our Lady, November 20, 1978 

DARKNESS OF THE SPIRIT
"My children of the world, you stand now upon a hill, a hill that you have built upon humanistic values and materialistic manners, as you sought to build a world of your own, cutting off the light, and building a utopia, built with humanism and socialism, and communism-all under the heading of love and brotherhood, but covered with a blanket of darkness of the spirit. For this, the Eternal Father has allowed you to pursue your own course. The awakening shall come in shock to many." - Jesus, November 20, 1979 

"I WARNED YOU"
"As I warned you in the past and you did not listen, unless you prayed more, did more penance, sacrifice, communism would go throughout your world, ravishing nations, destroying your Faith, entering into the highest places of My Son's House. Can you deny what is happening now in your world? Remove the blindness from your eyes and look! Come out of the darkness before it is too late, for a House in darkness wears a band of death about it! I repeat: a Church in darkness will close its doors." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977 

ARE  YOU  SO  BLIND?
"My children, I do not wish to place fear in your heart, but I cannot allow you to go forward without knowing what is happening about you. I assure you, My children, it is not productive to keep the truth from all and to substitute a climate of false hope and false peace. Know, My children, it is by peace, peace, peace-when the world cries peace the highest and the loudest, know that the destruction is at hand! Do you think there is honesty among thieves? Do you think there is honesty among atheists? Are you so blind, My children, not to recognize that communism has a great hold upon your country and the countries of the world?
   "O My children, I warned you many years ago, I warned you in Fatima that, unless you prayed and did penance, Russia and the agents of the sickle and the hammer would go throughout the world cutting down nations and bringing death, destruction, and slavery." - Our Lady, April 2, 1977 

ENSLAVED
"My children, no country now shall be free from the evils of communism. My heart is torn, for I have come to you in countless appearances upon earth to warn you as Our children to avoid compromise with the enemies of God, though they come to you with smooth tongues, rationalizing their behavior. And because man has fallen out of grace, he will accept these lies and become enslaved." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978 

FIFTH COLUMN
"There is, My children, a great conspiracy of evil now throughout your world-the forces, the columns of evil. Man has given them many names-the fifth column. They have been broken up into political parties, including communism. O My children, they are but small arms of the octopus, the gigantic conspiracy of evil that will unite your world and My Son's Church under the rule of despots!
   "There is in Rome, My children, a great struggle for power, a political machine controlled by satan. There shall be a war of the spirits. It shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal." - Our Lady, May 15, 1976 

TO REMOVE CHRISTIANITY
"One arm of the octopus is communism, atheistic communism. This arm of the octopus will promote discontent, revolution, death. This arm of the octopus will seek to remove Christianity from the earth. O woe unto a man who joins this force!" - Our Lady, June 10, 1978 

ONE PLAN IN MIND
"There is now a plan in the national and international seat of satan . . . . It is a group, My child, that is united with other groups throughout the world. They have one plan in mind: to bring about the fall of all nations and the introduction of communism to all nations, by destroying the young with drugs and all manners of debasity." - Our Lady, June 18, 1987 

Directives from Heaven:

D10 - Consecrate Russia  PDF
D101 - Russia and China, Part 1   PDF
D102 - Russia and China, Part 2   PDF
D103 - Communism   PDF
D104 - Invasion   PDF 

External Links:

Vatican condemns arrest of Catholic priests, September 11, 2004
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/09/11/625606-ap.html

Cardinal Kung Foundation (informs the public about persecution in communist China)

China Reveals Nuclear War Plans Against U.S. (UPI, March 20, 2000)
To view the top secret Chinese war plan document, Click Here.

Take off the Rose-Colored Glasses & See the Real China, Senator Asks  NewsMax.com, September 18, 2000

Sudan-China Situation Alarms Human Rights Groups  Stephan Archer Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000

Chinese in Sudan: Army of Workers, or Army?  Colonel Stanislav Lunev, August 30, 2000

China Puts 700,000 Troops on Alert in Sudan  NewsMax.com, August 27, 2000  

U.S. Opens Door to China's War Planners NewsMax.com, August 24, 2000

China Stirs Up Trouble Offshore and At Home NewMax.com, August 21, 2000

China Prepares for War With Taiwan NewsMax.com, August 15, 2000

China Flexes Muscles South of U.S. Borders NewsMax.com, August 14, 2000

Chinese Enter U.S. Through Virgin Islands Stephan Archer, August 11, 2000

Russia and China: An Anti-American Alliance NewsMax.com, July 19, 2000

Russia-China Axis Threatens Arms Race UPI, July 19, 2000

Russia Arming Chinese Navy Against U.S. NewsMax.com, July 12, 2000

Russia-China Military Ties Grow NewsMax.com, June 9, 2000

Still, Russia and China Are Not Our Friends Joel Skousen, June 5, 2000

Advances in Chinese Penetration of the U.S. Col. Stanislav Lunev, May 19, 2000

Congressmen Warn of China Threat NewsMax.com, May 9, 2000

Is China in Control of the Panama Canal? NewsMax.com, April 5, 2000

China Reveals Nuclear War Plans Against U.S. UPI, March 20, 2000