ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said on Friday that China was "a promise and a hope" for the Catholic Church, offering extensive praise for Beijing at the end of a four-nation tour across Southeast Asia and Oceania, and again expressed hope to visit the East Asian country one day.
Francis' comments during an in-flight press conference en route home from Singapore came as the Vatican enters into the final weeks of negotiations to renew a 2018 agreement over the contentious issue of bishop nominations.
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