✣ Highlights from the week online
Is 2017 the year for a Vatican-China deal? Negotiations between the Holy See and China “are on course for a landmark breakthrough in 2017”, wrote Victor Gaetan at National Catholic Register. Reconciliation “has been a top priority for Pope Francis from the start of his pontificate.”
Of 110 bishops in China, about 70 are jointly approved by Rome and Beijing, some 30 are solely endorsed by the Holy See, and eight are state-appointed bishops whose status is now under review by the Vatican.
