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and look at what the MSM is not reporting on and I mean none of [them], at least not since I searched yesterday.
Ready or not!
Here it comes!
The Vatican and China may renew their secret deal soon.
Here’s where their relationship stands.
Claire Giangravé - Religion News Service
August 11, 2020
"VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Aboard the papal flight returning from Japan in late 2019, Pope Francis told reporters about his hope to visit China one day.
“I would like to go to Beijing,” he said. “I love China.”
Since then, the tensions surrounding China have only increased after the revolts in Hong Kong, reports of human rights violations in the country and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The renewal of a secret deal between the Vatican and China, to be signed in September, is already splitting Catholics and risks heightening tensions further.
Vatican officials believe a deal with China could improve the lives of Chinese Catholics, especially those in the underground church. But critics fear the deal is already keeping Pope Francis silent on human rights abuses by the Chinese government, including its crackdown on Muslim Uighurs.
The contents of the deal are for the most part unknown.
A provisional agreement was signed in September 2018 between Chinese and Vatican officials but most of its details have remained under wraps.
That agreement allowed the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association to select nominees for bishops, whose names would then be submitted to the pope for approval.
Such deals have not been unheard of in the history of the Catholic Church, especially when countries have feared the excessive political and territorial influence of foreign clergy.
Sino-Vatican relations have been difficult from the beginning.
Catholic missionaries came to the country starting in the 13th century and converted large numbers to their faith. When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, all Christian missionaries were expelled."
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/08/11/vatican-china-catholic-deal-renewal