8/29/11 China (Catholic Online) – I have been regularly writing about the horrid persecution of faithful Catholics by the Communist Regime currently ruling mainland China. Sadly, because these Maoist Atheists now wear business suits, smile a lot, and hold commercial paper which represents a substantial amount of American I.O.U.’s, few politicians in either major political party have the courage to call them out for their egregious human rights abuses.

For example, the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, who claims to be a practicing Catholic failed to oppose the brutality of forced abortions and sterilization during his recent State visit. He remained silent before a brutal regime which subjects parents who have more than one child to fines, human rights abuses, beatings and imprisonment.

He said he would not “second guess” this murderous policy. Instead, he addressed these communist materialists with an argument rooted in another version of materialism, an American economism which does not value the dignity of the human person. This regime has been complicit in the killing of 400 million of its youngest neighbors. Forced abortion was decried at the Nuremberg trials as a crime against humanity. Yet, this Catholic Vice president, Joe Biden, remained silent.

In addition to this Communist Chinese regime’s crimes against humanity such as forced abortion and sterilization, they also persecute Christians and other religious believers – with a special hatred directed against the Catholic Church. On the weekend the Vice President was smiling and affirming this brutal regime – in order to curry favor in our debtor/creditor relationship –  the regime’s police were arresting Catholic priests and  lay men and women who refused to renounce their faith.

Among the courageous Catholic priests being persecuted in China is Fr Wang Chengli. He was arrested earlier this month. He has been a leader in what is called an “underground” Catholic Church  for 48 years. In mainland China, the communist tyrants have erected a State Controlled “Patriotic Church” (PA) through which they attempt to sever the ties between the faithful and the successor of Peter. The Holy See has tried diplomatically to deal with this blatant statist attack against the Catholic Church. The Holy Father has spoken out boldly and called the faithful to prayer and action.

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“It is hideous. Women are hunted down, if they evade these family planning cadres into the ninth month, they are forcibly brought into a clinic and [their children] are aborted. I had a…Chinese student here in the United States, who finally got asylum, and she told her story, how they literally held her father, they held other people until she surrendered for this so-called voluntary abortion, and then she literally, roughly, had her baby removed. And, as she said, they actually put one of the body parts on her to mock her. I mean, that’s how cruel this policy is.

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