By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - The Sino-Vatican deal continues to empower the CCP to subjugate Catholicism in China under Marxist ideology... On September 29, 2025, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping demanded that the pace of Sinicization of religions—that of bringing them in line with the principles of Maoism, which sought the total eradication of religion through the destruction of thousands of houses of worship and the imprisonment, torture, and murder of religious leaders and laypersons—be stepped up.