Parolin’s ‘no diplomacy’ diplomacy for a Chinese Church
The Vatican's plan for politics-free dialogue is actually a zero-sum game
Chinese Catholics can be their country’s best citizens, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a speech Tuesday at a conference in Rome.
Parolin, the Holy See’s foreign minister and the architect of the controversial Vatican-China deal on the appointment of bishops, used the example of a 19th century papal envoy to China to outline a …