Posted on 09/14/2020 12:29:15 PM PDT by ebb tide
Observers say the contentious deal will likely continue on a provisional basis.
VATICAN CITY — The Holy See and China intend to renew their provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said Monday.
The agreement, which is subject to revision this month, will expire in October, the cardinal said, but added that the common intentions are to continue with its renewal, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Cardinal Parolin, who spearheaded talks that led to the agreement on Sept. 22, 2018, was responding to questions from journalists on the side lines of a Sept. 14 conference with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at Italy’s Embassy to the Holy See.
The event was titled “Forty-five years after the Helsinki Accords, Cardinal Silvestrini and the Vatican Ostpolitik,” organized by Italy’s ambassador to the Holy See. The policy of Ostpolitik, which sought compromise with Soviet communism including a cessation of all public Vatican criticism of communist regimes, was widely considered a failure and was resisted by Pope St. John Paul II.
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So, Chinese Catholics tossed under the bus by Rome again. It comes as no surprise.
Cheap at $200 million per annum.
I thought it was two billion per annum.
Both countries are run by Communists.
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