Mao as Moses

The Chinese Communist government has brought the Ten Commandments up to date. Last week the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, published a new Decalogue, said to be the first step in a new "Chinese" theology developed for Chinese Roman Catholics by the brain trust of Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung.

I--Thou shalt practice faith, hope & charity.

II--Thou shalt believe in God.

Ill--Thou shalt observe His commandments.

IV--Thou shalt suppress all forms of despotism and feudalism.

V--Thou shalt support the God-sent popular democracy (of Mao Tse-tung)

VI--Thou shalt go to a school of the masses.

VII--Thou shalt obey the directives of thy organizations.

VIII--Long live St. John Bosco (19th Century founder of the Salesian order for the care and teaching of children) !

IX-- Long live St. Luigi Gonzaga (16th Century Jesuit who died caring for plague victims) !

X--Long live the Universal Catholic Church!

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