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VATICAN-RUSSIA-CHINA The old and new Ostpolitik of the Holy See (I)
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The Vatican’s latest openings to China resemble the path traced by the old Ostpolitik of Card. Agostino Casaroli. Then as now, the Holy See’s moves have provoked and provoke disagreements, criticism and charges of forgetting the persecuted Church and
human rights violations. Casaroli himself had doubts about his effectiveness, although he was eager to implement the dimension of dialogue, rediscovered with the Second Vatican Council. Part One.
Rome (AsiaNews) - In recent months, and perhaps in recent years, the Holy See’s renunciatory and radically negationist approach in its "foreign policy" is prompting more and more questions and perplexities. At times it recalls the Vatican Ostpolitik of the last century, which saw the Church compromising with the most adverse regimes, from Hitler's Nazism to the Soviet Union of Stalin and Chruščev. Even today the Vatican is launching itself headlong into reckless openings and generic acquiescence, of which the most resounding seems to be the possible agreement on the nominations of bishops with post-modern communist China. It had not even bent to this in the Casaroli era.