Vatican says China violated pact on bishops, wants explanation

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5. You're free to be Catholic or not.

But if in China, you're not free from "everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

That was also the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Or Venezuela. Or even Iran.

When you see more and more state control, that's where it's heading. The state rules everything, nothing escapes, and if it challenges state authority (or the politicians' authority) that's a bad thing meaning that the state obviously needs to increase power. That may be Mussolini's catch-phrase, but it's obviously not just fascist sensu stricto.