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Last month, the chief rabbi of Rome accused Pope Francis of “selective indignation” in his comments about the Israel-Hamas war. “A pope cannot divide the world into children and stepchildren and must denounce the sufferings of all,” Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni said. “This is exactly what the pope does not do.”
The same charge was made when the Holy Father gave his “State of the World” address to the diplomats accredited to the Holy See in January. The persecution of Catholics in China was a “glaring omission,” stated the Pillar. When Pope Francis recently wrote to the U.S. bishops about the Trump administration’s deportation policy, the issue of China arose again. The letter demonstrators an “ugly contrast, bordering on hypocrisy, between the Holy See’s approach to U.S. conditions and those in China,” wrote Francis Maier.
Likewise, when it comes to Venezuela and Nicaragua, which have openly attacked the Catholic Church, the Vatican says little, often nothing. Why might this be? It could be that Pope Francis simply prefers to see no enemies to the left. Yet there are other explanations. …
