Pope Confirms Bishop Handpicked by Chinese Communist Party
Demonstrating yet again what a sad and compromised ‘leader’ he is, Pope Francis bowed to China and confirmed a Bishop hand-selected and appointed by Communist authorities, according to a report from LifeSiteNews.
While there is no such thing as a ‘good’ pope, since they are the head of an evil and wicked heterodox church, Francis has been particularly noxious and vexatious, doing things like affirming the faith of Joe Biden and saying he would never refuse him communion because the President’s love for abortion is between him and God, endorsing civil unions for gay couples, appointing multiple pro-choice people to his pro-life organization, asking pagans to send him ‘good vibes’ and releasing an outrageously blasphemous statement.
LifeSiteNews explains:
In the daily bulletin on July 15, the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Francis had appointed Bishop Joseph Shen Bin as Bishop of Shanghai, thus “transferring him from the Diocese of Haimen, Jiangsu Province.”
…If the name of Bishop Shen Bin is familiar, that is because he was already appointed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as head of the Diocese of Shanghai back on April 4 of this year, in a move which the Vatican was only “informed” about but not involved in.
His April appointment came from the state-controlled Chinese Catholic Bishops’ Group, part of the official Chinese state-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA)… the Vatican stated via its press office that “the Holy See had been informed a few days ago of the decision of the Chinese authorities” and then “learned from the media of the settlement” on the morning the event took place.
While Protestants have no pope over them, it would be not unlike Governor Gavin Newsom in California appointing a new pastor to be senior leader over Grace Community Church once John MacArthur passed away, and then the board of elders backing the appointment.
It’s a complete betrayal but also par for the course for the decrepit and corrupt pontiff.