The Vatican announced recently that it had approved the appointment of Joseph Chang Yanfeng as bishop of Chifeng, a diocese in Inner Mongolia, China, that had not had a bishop in two decades.
Pope Leo XIV reportedly personally approved the appointment of now-Bishop Yanfeng under the provisions of a highly controversial agreement between the Holy See and the Chinese Communist Party brokered by predecessor Pope Francis in 2018 that allowed the atheist communists a say in Vatican clergy appointments, even as Beijing does not have formal ties to Vatican City to punish it for its recognition of Taiwan as a sovereign state.
The agreement’s full provisions have never been made...
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