A weakened China will seek scapegoats
SIR – The leading article in your July 5 issue emphasises something that is too often overlooked or downplayed in discussions of China in both the secular and religious press. That is that, while it may have embraced Western capitalism, it is ruled by the Communist Party, with an avowed atheist as its president.
It seems as though the Vatican is only too willing to throw brave “underground” Catholic clergy and lay people under the bus in order to score a diplomatic coup with the regime (perhaps Pope Francis is eyeing an eventual trip to China).
