(Beijing Composite Television) The Vatican Saturday (October 22) said that it has been appointed by the Chinese renewal to appoint the bishop, allowing mainland China to nominate the bishop candidates, and eventually the pope is appointed.

Comprehensive Agence France -Presse and Reuters reported that the temporary agreement was reached for the first time in 2018, and the first extension of the first two years in 2020. This time was the second time it was extended for two years.

Pope Fang Ji was foreseeable in an interview with Reuters on July 2.

This agreement is designed to alleviate the underground group of loyalty to Pope in mainland China, and the long -term differences between the Chinese official churches.

Since the 1950s, the two sides admitted for the first time that the Pope was the supreme leader of the Catholic Church.

Fang Ji's interview in July admitted that the agreement was "progress slow", but incomplete dialogue was better than no contact.

The opponent of the

Agreement claims that only six new bishops have been appointed since the agreement signing, and the proof that the agreement has not achieved the expected results.

Vatican insisted that the agreement involved the structure of the Chinese church is not a precursor to establish a comprehensive diplomatic relationship with Beijing.If the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing will cause the Holy See to cut off relations with Taiwan.

In this regard, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan attaches great importance to the "solemn commitment" of the Vatican, that is, the agreement is about religious issues, not diplomatic or political issues. I hope that the agreement will "help improve China's increasingly serious religious freedom issue"" ".

The Vatican tried to arrange Chinese officials with Fang Ji last month. At that time, both leaders were in Kazakhstan, but they were declined by China.