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...representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have managed to stay revolutionary at such an elderly age." As for Chou, "We've all decided that he's the sexiest man in the world...
First Richard Nixon. Now Pope Paul VI. Few more unlikely suitors could be imagined to come acourting at the doorstep of that aging antiChrist, Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Last week there was the Vatican's staid Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, proclaiming in its weekly bulletin that Chairman Mao's thoughts contained "Christian reflections...
...mood between Mao's China and Paul's Vatican has been thawing ever since 1970, when China released Missionary Bishop James Walsh after twelve years' imprisonment. Later the same year, on his tour through East Asia, the Pope stopped in Hong Kong to celebrate a Mass during which he delivered "a message of unity and love to all the Chinese people wherever they may be." At the time, the Vatican's "foreign minister," Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, described the Pope's speech as an explicit gesture to Communist China...
...Catholic foe of Communist China was incensed by the Fides article. Said Right-Wing Jesuit Journalist Daniel Lyons: "Mao's ideas are no more Christian than Hitler's were. Hitler also fed the poor-when it served his purpose. We have the right to expect Vatican spokesmen to speak out like Christ against the Pharisees and not to try to create dialogue with them by compromising Christian teachings...
Lyons' rhetoric is intemperate and hardly typical of mainstream Catholic opinion. But the Vatican shift, which appears to show more concern for the good works of Mao's China than for the faith of its still persecuted Christians, may well trouble less polemical Catholics, too. The idea has come from Rome, however, not from some progressive theologian, and Rome seems to be moving with history...