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China and Vatican: positive signals, but there is a silence that weighs on us

The three recent appointments of bishops indicate a willingness not to break. But the Agreement with the Vatican is never even mentioned by the People’s Republic of China. While a «five-year plan» for Catholics has just come into force that cites Xi Jinping instead of the pope and invokes a «theological foundation» to a Sinicization that in fact remains only an adaptation to Party policy.

What Catholics (and non-Catholics alike) should know about transhumanism and emerging technologies explained by a priest

Fr. Michael Baggot, editor and author of Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies, offers an in-depth analysis of Transhumanism and Emerging Technologies in his latest interview with Matt Fradd on the United States’ most renowned Catholic long-form discussion program Pints with Aquinas