china face

My source tells me that China puts on one face for the outside world, a face that proclaims peace and prosperity, and another face when addressing its citizen-serfs. Children there are taught to hate America and kill all Americans, all Americans. Sorry – can’t reveal my source.

I felt tasked with doing a bit of research and found this video that follows the money trail. Father William Ryan, SJ, a teacher at my high school in the 1960s, was held in solitary confinement in 1951. What a stark contrast there exists between Ryan and the man who strikes deals with communists.

A 180-degree Jesuit turn and fiendish repudiation of their history in China. In the morning offering I push through a six-second snag.

Listen to what Cardinal Zen from Hong Kong says: “It’s a secret … secret even to a Chinese cardinal.” Report is from the South China Morning Post, dated Oct. 8, 2020, and offered without commentary by the newspaper. That is welcomed.

​www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3104745/former-hong-kong-bishop-pessimistic-about-religious-freedom-beijing