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Believe me, it's a huge betrayal of the faithful underground Catholics (speaking as a Catholic), who have been suffering persecution for decades.

It's a way of asserting government control over the Church in China, which is antithetical to freedom of religion.

For the Vatican to agree is a watershed moment in the history of the Church, and not in a good way.