Vatican City - The world's biggest communist organisation selected its Chief

 The Catholic world was held in suspense for a few weeks after the death of Pope Francis. After a few days of closed down juggling and discussion, the cardinals selected the next Pope among themselves to head the Catholic Church. The whole process was similar to how the communist countries select the Chairman of their parties. Xi Jinping was selected in the same way, though the nomenclature and rituals were different. This is the same form of democratic election as the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church organisation structure and hierarachy are very similar to the Communist Party of China. How a young priest or a cadre is enlisted and rose through the ranks, after serving the lowest parish or commune and get promoted along the way to eventually becoming bishops, cardinals and popes is a mirror image of the CPC where a young cadre moved from village secretary to regional secretary, city and provincial secretary to the politburo and standing committee and eventually the Chairman or the CPC.

The wealth of the Catholic Church is communal wealth, like a communist country. The whole organisation is divided into different levels by region, districts, towns, cities to little villages. And they also have cell groups for discussion and confession, the communist system called it self criticism for admission of errors and mistakes.

Actually, the CPC structure and political processes were copied from the Catholic Church and adapted to run a nation state. Karl Marx, a Jew, got his inspiration from the communes run by Jesus, where their wealth and properties belong to all and shared by all the members of the community. The wealth in the Vatican City is supposed to be the wealth of all the Catholics in the world. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the Lord. Every citizen is equal in the communist system. Of course, some are more equal than others in the CPC and the Catholic Church. Some still enjoy great luxury while some lived the life of poor sisters in India eg Mother Teresa.

Is the Catholic Church system a democratic process? Is the CPC system a democratic process?