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Tamás Sulyok, President of the Republic of Hungary Photo: Vatican Media

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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.