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China Steps Up Persecution of Christians As Pope Leo Sticks with Secret Vatican Deal, by Jules Gomes – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Jules Gomes, The Stream, July 18, 2025

Dr. Jules Gomes (BA, BD, MTh, PhD) has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

 

British parliamentarians plead with tight-lipped pontiff to speak out on Catholic media baron’s incarceration

Communist China is intensifying its crackdown on Chinese Catholics who conscientiously object to a pact between Rome and Beijing. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV shows no signs of ending the clandestine deal Pope Francis struck with China in 2018.

The conscientious objectors are part of the underground Catholic Church, which remains loyal to the Vatican despite its concordat with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Critics have slammed that as a betrayal of faithful Catholics and an appeasement of the Communist regime. ….

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