Pope Talks about China, Migration, Sex Abuse, Women

La Croix
June 22, 2018

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Pope Francis in a new one-on-one interview with Philip Pullella, head of Reuters’ Rome bureau has spoken on various issues such as the Holy See’s talks with China, the position of women within the church, migration, populism, Chile’s clerical sex abuse crisis and reform of the Roman Curia.On talks with ChinaPope Francis said he was optimistic about the outcome of normalization talks with the Chinese authorities while at the same time acknowledging that dialogue “is a risk” but still preferred it to “the certain defeat” of not dialoguing with Beijing.Here is some of what Francis said on the subject. “We are at a good point.”“Dialogue is a risk, but I prefer risk rather...