Genuflecting to Zhongnanhai?
From the beginning, Pope Francis’s deal with China on the appointment of bishops has drawn fire from critics who see it as throwing long-suffering “catacomb” Catholics under the bus. More recently, a senior U.S. official charged that since the agreement was inked last September, it’s also made religious persecution in China worse across the board.
Still other dissenters from the deal object that its terms remain secret. Six months later, all we know officially is that there is an agreement, but precious little about what it contains.
Elsie Harris, Crux
What’s the Vatican’s secret deal with China?
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