{"id":48924,"date":"2018-09-22T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/09\/22\/vatican-signs-historic-deal-with-china-over-appointment-of-bishops\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T10:36:00","slug":"vatican-signs-historic-deal-with-china-over-appointment-of-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/09\/22\/vatican-signs-historic-deal-with-china-over-appointment-of-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican signs historic deal with China over appointment of bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-ONLY VIDEO-<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has signed a<strong> historic deal with China on a procedure for appointing Catholic bishops<\/strong>. <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<strong>Provisional Agreement<\/strong>\u201d was signed today in <strong>Beijing<\/strong>, \u201cwithin the framework of the contacts between the Holy See and the People\u2019s Republic of China that have been underway for some time.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According the Vatican, \u201c<em>it is the fruit of a gradual and reciprocal rapprochement, and has been agreed following a long process of careful negotiation, and foresees the possibility of periodic reviews of its application<\/em>.\u201d <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt concerns the<strong> nomination of Bishops<\/strong>, a question of great importance for the life of the Church, and creates the conditions for greater collaboration at the bilateral level.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The shared hope is that this agreement <\/em><strong><em>may favor a fruitful and forward-looking process of institutional dialogue <\/em><\/strong><em>and may contribute positively to the life of the Catholic Church in China, to the common good of the Chinese people and to peace in the world<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg Burke<\/strong>, the pope's spokesman added that \u201c<em>this has been about dialogue, patient listening on both sides even when people come from very different standpoints<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According Mr. Burke, \u201c<em>the objective of the accord is not political but pastoral, allowing the faithful to have bishops wha are in communion with Rome but at the same time recognized by Chinese authorities.<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of December 2017, the <strong>number of bishops in China was 101<\/strong>; of these, <strong>65 belong to the \u201cpatriotic\u201d community<\/strong> that is recognized by the Chinese authorities; and<strong> 36 belong to the \u201cunderground\u201d community<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are some <strong>12 million Catholics in China<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 22, 2018. According to Vatican spokesman, \u201cthe objective of the deal is not political but pastoral, allowing the faithful to have bishops who are in communion with Rome but at the same time recognized by Chinese authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V6DyyIjo24Y","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnccinavaticano.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnccinavaticano.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}