I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government
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Very interesting, father ariel!… I have read a bit’ Book of Myers… amazing stories, yet true.
Recently I read this as well, Review of the Catholic Press:
http://www.rassegnastampa-totustuus.it/cattolica/?p=41116
From me, which I am certainly not an expert, But I feel, albeit “skin”, as would Bassetti, that the Chinese regime is not still very hard… the demographics working against, and people are tired. I'd hate to much, Certain, that the collapse would cause a bloodbath in former Yugoslavia, but you know that history goes like this… when the time came, It came.
My opinion is that however communism has already subtly forever undermined the foundations of Chinese society, since communism, although perverse, It is a fruit of Christian civilization. After the victory of Christ on the cross and the rise of Christian civilization, that does not identify with Christianity, but with the field where live, the wheat and the tares in which somehow the Christian "authentic" will always be persecuted, since even the best Christian civilization will always be the "world" in the evangelical sense of the word (which some traditionalists in their millenarianism the contrary, ie face to the past, They never get to understand or to accept, culpably); after the victory of Christ, I said, evil is, as it were, forced to act through anticristiche demonstrations, dissimulatrici, false similarity or perverse imitation of the Christian.
Saint John, the "recapitulates" for excellence essence of Christian truth, He says that this is "the last hour", that is the time that separates us from the return of Christ the judge after he said on the cross: “tutto è compiuto”; but this is also the time of Antichrists, according to St John, because only after Christ the Antichrist becomes conceivable to its fullest, at least in the history.
Now, Christianity has taken away forever the man to "totalitarianism" family, clanistico, ethnic, nazionale, without abolishing or annihilate neither family, born he clan, born the ethnic group, or the nation (as do the Jacobins scimmiottatori Christian universalism worshipers State) because with Christ a person becomes fully before all that really is: son of God.
In the second century AD, and then the beauty of around 1850 Years ago, Justin Martyr (100-165 d.C.) addressed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius Apologia for Christians in which he writes, The Other Brother, with stunning clarity: "We strive to pay anywhere, before all others, taxes and tolls to your charge, as we have learned from him. During that time, He approached some who wondered if we should pay taxes to Caesar. And He answered: "Ditemi, this coin who depicts?”. Those, in turn, They responded: “Cesare”. His E, still, turned to them: “Date, so, to Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's ". So we worship God alone, but for everything else you obey willingly, recognizing as legitimate emperors and kings men, and praying that into you, along with the imperial power, you also can find the right reason ".
The recognized sonship of God, and then ontological uniqueness of each person, It is the basis of Christian universalism that unites us all. The Enlightenment revolutions and those communistic, which they are modern forms of millenarian heresies, They have borrowed many aspects of Christian universalism (think of the pseudo-religion of human rights or the pseudo-religious character of Republican ésprit) But putting the state in the place of God, abolishing the fruits of Christian secularism (the only really conceivable in the long term, What the traditionalists above, frightened by modern anti-Christian secularism, They have not wanted neither understand nor accept) that distinguishes it is the century of what is of God because of the different purposes, though not conflicting, at a different level hierarchical, state and religion, for "separate" and so was ethical and create more refined forms of totalitarianism old. It should be noted that typically only in reaction to them were born totalitarianisms statalistici on reduced and national scale that flirted openly with neopaganism.
So communism anti-Christian, historically speaking, He has indirectly represented, for the non-Christian world, a brutal and perverse form of Christian secularism. The fact that ancient civilizations and cultures have miserably collapsed under his blows it can not only be explained by the ruthless and cynical realism of its interpreters, but also with the fact that it was the bearer of truth conveyed Christian universalism and they spoke to the hearts irresistibly. It 'the same pattern that gave a mysterious force early centuries of Islam: barbaric but crudely and imperfectly universal leveler, and then affratellante.
As different, today (speaking epochal sense) the reality of Islam and China are in mid-stream, knowing in their hearts that ending (it is absolutely inevitable in the long term) in Christian secularization they will end up in Christian civilization, on the other hand he has never annihilated languages and cultures, and indeed he has often re-vivified freeing them from what was a transient dehumanizing in them. The Catholic Church today does not seem to be clear, nor the face of the world's convulsions or culturally non-Christian secularism in front of the decaying current anti-Christian West, so instead of bright stand as peaceful lighthouse, He prefers to "peacefully" confused and come to terms with both.
Perhaps communism is more the result of 'Judaism . Only the people with the people and for the people will achieve the sun of