Something doesn't add up.......

And it doesn't take a math wizard to figure it out.

First there's this article about the underground Church in China.

Then there's this one.

Sounds to me like someone is trying to put lipstick on a pig, as evidenced by this quote, "But in Wednesday's interview, Li, whose comments were translated into Italian, said that "the problem of clandestine Catholics does not exist."

And it seems the Vatican may be complicit in it.

(h/t to Fr. Z and The Curt Jester for these articles.)