Catholic Culture: “Italians in the Roman Curia don’t know the Chinese dictatorship because they have never experienced a Communist regime,” Cardinal Zen said.
“I always trusted [Vatican Secretary of State] Parolin, until I found out that he too was in favor of an agreement, which at this stage would only be unconditional surrender,” he added. Chinese negotiators “put a document on the table to sign and our people don’t have the ability or the strength to make different proposals. Do we want to sacrifice the nomination and consecration of bishops for a bogus dialogue?” More on this here.
