Vatican-China deal seen as failure
July 19, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: In an analysis for The Pillar, with the revealing title “How Rome lost the Vatican-China Deal,” Ed Condon quotes Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s remark that under the secret Vatican-China pact, “all episcopal appointments in China, including transfers, be made by consensus, as agreed.”
“But, as the cardinal seemed to recognize, the reality is that Beijing has dispensed with exactly that consensus.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 22, 2023 3:02 AM ET USA
If the Vatican wouldn't hate "underground" Catholics in China so much, the Church would have accepted them, defended them, and stood up to the CCP and CPCA. Of course the persecuted Cardinal Zen was right all along, but no one in the Vatican was listening or even cared what a prelate on the ground had to say. The tyranny continues: (1) "one" Catholic presence in China (and it ain't the "underground" Catholic Church), (2) "one" sacramental rite for the Roman Church, (3) "one" interpretation of AL
