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No progress in China
No progress in China
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The provisional and secret agreement signed two years ago with China expired on September 22, and the Holy See would like to renew it for at least another two years. That agreement hinged on a very limited issue: the appointment of Catholic bishops in China. And even reducing the overall evaluation Vatican-China relations to this measure alone, the bottom line appears unsatisfactory.