{"id":4715,"date":"2018-03-06T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/bergoglio-bows-to-beijing\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:25:56","slug":"bergoglio-bows-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/bergoglio-bows-to-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergoglio Bows to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/civil-wars\/articles\/2018-03-02\/is-pope-francis-selling-out-to-communist-china\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"lede\">POPE FRANCIS HAS EARNED&#0160;<\/span>a reputation as a man of the people, making [it] his mission to advocate for the poor, the downtrodden and the persecuted, particularly those of Christian faith. The Vatican&#39;s reported deal with China, to effectively abdicate the power of the pope to select bishops to the communist state, has therefore been met with feelings of shock and even betrayal among the faithful, especially those in China itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Why shocked? He is just being consistent in his leftism. So I&#39;m beginning to think that defunding the Left involves defunding the Catholic Church until she reforms herself. 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The Vatican&#39;s reported deal with China, to effectively abdicate the power of the pope to select bishops to the communist state, has therefore been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/bergoglio-bows-to-beijing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bergoglio Bows to Beijing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}