ROME – Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that both China and the Vatican hope that a controversial deal on episcopal appointments will be renewed for a third time when it expires later this year.
Speaking to journalists on the margins of a high-profile May 21 conference on Vatican-China relations, Parolin said of the deal, “We are all interested in the agreement being renewed”.
He said the deal could be “also developed in some points”, but did not expand on what those details might be.
