Hong Kong's Cardinal Zen Says Vatican Lied About The Church in China

Religion Unplugged ^ | 2/17/21 | Timothy Neruzzi

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In a handwritten letter sent exclusively to Religion Unplugged, Cardinal Joseph Zen reflected on the Vatican’s continued cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, declaring the Church in China “schismatic,” and placing the blame on Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin.

“I will never fight with the Pope, but the Pope never tried to silence me, so [I] will continue to protest against Parolin,” Zen said.

Cardinal Zen, a retired bishop from Hong Kong, has been an unwelcome commentator on the Vatican’s secretive and opaque deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the rights of the church in China.

However, it is not the pope who the elderly bishop holds accountable. Instead, Cardinal Zen blames Parolin for deceiving the pontiff and ignoring the wishes of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

“Parolin is telling lies shamelessly,” Cardinal Zen writes. “He says that the agreement now being signed is the same already approved by Pope Benedict. This lie is also an insult to Pope Benedict, who is so meek and will not come out to contradict him.”

Cardinal Zen, now a humanitarian activist and religious freedom-fighter, is troubled by the Vatican’s recent announcement, saying it could open the underground Catholic Church in China to further abuses.

“They kept the agreement secret even from me, a Chinese cardinal, so I don’t know its content. Also the people in China don’t know the content, Cardinal Zen said. “So the government could use it to demand everything from our faithful saying that the Pope has already agreed: e.g. forcing the people from the underground to join the Patriotic Association, to join the independent Church, which is objectively a schismatic Church.”

Cardinal Zen blasted the seven Chinese bishops appointed by the CCP and confirmed by the Vatican, accusing them of being tools of the Communist regime and........

[Hambone 1934]

Just another wolf in the Vatican trying to destroy Catholics..Pope Francis is the head of the church,he IS TO BLAME FOR WHAT’S GOING ON IN CHINA........

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Zen master

[frank ballenger]

Cardinal Zen....

Shouldn’t that phony sounding name have been used in the Dean Martin Matt Helm or James Coburn Our Man Flint movies? Victor Buono could have played him.

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Ping

[mosesdapoet]

The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CCWV (Chinese Communist Wuhan Virus) breakout occurred in Wuhan the politburo closed off Wuhan but did not warn the Italian Socialist government or the Pope with whom the Chinese government had good relations with.

But certainly violated when the socialists should have been informed and allowed to deny those Chinese workers who replaced Italians in those factories taken over by the Chinese travel to and from China particularly for their New Year while this was occurring. Which Trump did with the exception of only allowing American citizens returning..
Sure looks suspicious particularly when crews of US naval vessels somehow wind up being infected by it while visiting certain Asian ports before that showed up in Italy.