Catholic politician slams Vatican-China agreement: ‘Deal with the devil’

Catholic politician slams Vatican-China agreement: ‘Deal with the devil’ ‘Fear of upsetting the Chinese Communist Party has led the Vatican to remain silent about gross violations of religious freedom,’ the UK’s Lord David Alton said.Lord David Alton of Liverpool, a Catholic member of the UK’s House of Lords, in an interview published on Tuesday, slammed the Vatican’s secret agreement with the communist Chinese government as a “deal with the devil” and criticized Rome’s silence as the faithful are persecuted.During his interview with Crux, published August 18, Lord Alton, while discussing an ongoing petition launched by Aid to the Church in...