We Catholics should not expect so much of the Papacy now. Pope Francis maintains a stubborn silence on Xinjiang as he does on a lot of things. Michelle Bachelet the UN Commissioner on Human Rights has issued a careful and measured report which must be regarded as a floor and not as a ceiling. Her main achievement was to discover a non-polemical language in which to discuss her evaluation of forced assimilation policies. My own country practised policies of forced assimilation. Argentina both exterminated and assimilated. I do not have to leave the church in which I was born because of its leader. He can leave. I ask for the abdication of Pope Francis forthwith. I have tried to give him my obedience when I was not merely indifferent to him. Scandals have occurred during his pontificate that would have brought down a democratic secular leader. Once again papal sovereignty is being misused without reference to the Faithful, and the right to a private state is being abused.
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