[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV, Parolin, and China: A Silence That Grows After One Year of Pontificate

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV, Parolin, and China: A Silence That Grows After One Year of PontificateOne year after the election of Leo XIV, the Vatican continues to fail to clarify what the future holds for the controversial agreement signed with China on the appointment of bishops. While Cardinal Pietro Parolin continues to control the Secretariat of State and maintain the diplomatic line inherited from Francis’s pontificate, doubts are growing within the Church about a policy toward Beijing that has not halted the persecution of Chinese Catholics.A silence in crescendoA recent analysis published by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana once again focuses...