Geremie Barmé is a Sinologist who first came to China during the ‘Criticize Confucius and Lin Biao’ campaign and has been writing about Chinese culture, society and politics since then. He has written an opinion piece which was published just over a week ago in The Australian newspaper:
Where hard men rule
AS the cardinals prepare to meet in conclave in Rome next week to decide on a new leader for the Catholic Church, it is salutary to consider the fate of another sclerotic organisation that avows a dogma equally out of kilter with the contemporary world…
LINK:
The Australian: Where hard men rule
Found via China Digital Times