It is difficult for outsiders to understand the reality of life for underground Catholics In China. We were fortunate, therefore, to be able to speak to a Chinese Catholic, “John Paul.” His frustration becomes immediately clear: “At a time when we desperately needed support, Rome betrayed us. Now on top of the Vatican’s silence about the systemic persecutions in China comes her loud promotion of sexual immorality which will lure my nation to the same path of western disorder.”