One of the reasons for Xi Jinping's visit to Italy "is the Vatican". Steve Bannon points the finger at Beijing and Pope Francis who, he claims, “signed a secret agreement with the most hateful government in the world” and handed Beijing “the power to choose the bishops of the Chinese Catholic Church”. Bannon, guest of Letter 22 in a conference at the Angelica Library in Rome, quotes Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zeng, who condemned the agreement between China and the Vatican as “a sell-out of China's Christian martyrs”. Donald Trump's former chief strategist asks Pope Francis to "make public" the agreement with Beijing, whose signature defines a "disgrace that effectively sells out the living saints of China".

Bannon on pedophile priests and the Vatican

Bannon, who defines himself as a “practicing Catholic”, he is not gentle with the Vatican even when it comes to the painful issue of pedophilia. The recent summit in Rome, dice, it was a “total failure”, failed to make the issue of "zero tolerance" central. The political scientist sees a dark future for the US Catholic church, which “is worth approximately 70% of all the cash flow of the worldwide church”. The many civil lawsuits filed against American dioceses for covering up the abuse of pedophile priests, predicts, they risk leading to the “liquidation” of the US Catholic Church “in the near future 5-10 years" and this "can also lead to the bankruptcy of the parent company".
source – https://www.secoloditalia.it/2019/03/steve-bannon-a-roma-il-papa-ha-svenduto-i-martiri-cinesi-al-regime-di-pechino/