EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Parolin Confirms Vatican Aims to Renew Secretive Deal With China This Year, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News, April 23, 2024

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told LifeSiteNews that the Holy See ‘hope[s] to renew’ its secretive deal with Communist China, which has faced scathing criticism from Catholic clergy, freedom advocates, and China experts.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has confirmed to LifeSiteNews that the Holy See intends to renew its secretive deal with Communist China later this year.

In an email exchange, Cardinal Parolin affirmed that the highly controversial Sino-Vatican deal that the Holy See has with the Communist authorities in Beijing is set for renewal this autumn.

Responding to a question from LifeSiteNews asking if the Vatican intended to renew the deal, Parolin stated “with reference to your question about the Holy See’s agreement with China … we hope to renew it.” 

“We are also in dialogue on this point with our Chinese interlocutors,” the cardinal secretary of state added. …

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