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Faithful Catholics of the Underground Church can no longer refuse on the grounds that they recognize only the Pope’s Church. Why? Because Francis himself has validated the orders of XI’s party stooges.

The Silent Pope

But the Holy Father has done more than that: he has ostentatiously failed to condemn China’s savage assaults on human rights, the worst of which is its attempt to eradicate the country’s Muslim Uyghurs ethnic minority by herding them into concentration camps and forcing Uighur women to have abortions.

As I say in this episode of Holy Smoke, the Pope’s behaviour is not just a disgrace but a mystery. The Catholic Church has gained nothing from the 2018 pact. On the contrary, it has given Beijing a handy excuse to intensify its harassment of Catholics. So why is the Vatican apparently keen to renew a deal that so badly reflects on it?

Just Follow The Money

One plausible explanation is money. Rome hasn’t got any! China enjoys nothing more than buying influence. This year, claims surfaced that the Communist Party is quietly slipping the Vatican Euro 1.6 billion a year in order to buy the Pope’s silence about the Uyghurs, the subjugation of Hong Kong and the demolition of churches.

Damian Thompson: https:www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/the-fatican-s-sinister -deal-with-Beijing Catherine Lafferty, journalist Father Benedict Kelly, a campaigner on behalf of persecuted religious minorities captions and pictures by Hauriet Aquas

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Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCPUSA) has endorsed Joe Biden for president.

Mr. Avakian, who has led the party since 1979, says he doesn’t particularly like Mr. Biden, but that electing him is necessary for “the overthrow of this system, as the fundamental solution to the continuing horrors this system causes for the masses of humanity.”

That “system” is our self-governing republic with its constitutionally guaranteed rule of law, property rights, the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly, and free market economics.

All of this has produced the freest, most prosperous and most generous nation in history.

It’s got to go. (Says Mr. Avakian)

In contrast to America’s leadership of the Free World, communism has killed more people and created more misery than any other ideology.

The death toll alone from communist regimes during the 20th century is at least 100 million (“The black Book of communism”)

According to historian Paul Kengor, citing other scholars, including Hoover Institution’s late Robert Conquest, the figure should be closer to 140 million dead.

The killings are not over, he notes in his new book,, ‘The Devil and Karl Marx.” They’re still murdering dissidents in China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and any other places unfortunate enough to come under the commissars’ boot.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/9/communists-approve-joe-biden-for-president/

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“The Bill (HD5181), filed by three Democrats – Reps. Jon Santiago and Mindy Domb and Sen. Harriette Chandler – aims to stave off a second surge. Several of its provisions are already required through executive orders Gov. Charlie Baker issued, but the legislation would enshrine them in law.

With no vaccine or significant preventative medicine to protect us against COVID-19 infection, and with cases surging across the country, we must ensure that proven public health policy interventions are written into law in Massachusetts,” Chanler said in a statement Tuesday.

“A deadly resurgence of COVID 19 is preventable. We have proven practices to curb the spread of viral infection: wearing face masks, ensuring widely available testing, finalizing formal workplace safety standards, and quarantining tourists coming from hotbed states. But they only work if we all participate.”

Those who violate the face covering provision under the bill could be fined up to $100.00 for a second or subsequent offense, while those who violate the mandatory self-quarantine aftravel could be fined up to $1,000.

The bill also calls for prioritizing testing for high-risk populations and for a stronger enforcement mechanism against workplace safety violations.”

https://patch.com/massachusetts/boston/fines-no-masks-violating-traveler-quarantine-proposed