Retired Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen (陳日君) has no illusions about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); neither does Pope Francis.
However, the two men have taken diametrically opposite approaches in how they deal with the Chinese communists: The former, vocal and active, has been arrested and faces, at the age of 90, a potential jail sentence; the latter is silent.
For critics of the pope’s reticence on calling the CCP out on human rights abuses its campaign of cultural genocide against Uighurs in Xinjiang, its crackdown on the Hong Kong democracy movement and the arrest of a nonagenarian bishop his
Hong Kong’s 90-year-old Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, an open critic of what he views as the Vatican’s soft approach to China, criticized the Holy See for being “unwise” despite its “perhaps good inte. Cardinal Joseph Zen criticizes Vatican's 'unwise' approach to China relations | World | English edition | Agencia EFE
Ninety-year-old retired Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen (陳日君) yesterday appeared in a Hong Kong court charged with failing to properly register a protest defense fund, after he was initially arrested under the territory’s National Security Law.
Zen, one of the highest-ranking Catholic clerics in Asia, was among five prominent democracy advocates including singer Denise Ho (何韻詩) and veteran human rights barrister Margaret Ng (吳靄儀) who were detained earlier this month.
The group acted as trustees of a now-defunct fund that helped pay legal and medical costs for those arrested during huge and sometimes violent democracy protests three years ago.
Hong Kong, May 24 (EFE).- Hong Kong’s 90-year-old Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, an open critic of what he views as the Vatican’s soft approach to China, criticized the Holy See for being “unwise” despite its “perhaps good intention” on Tuesday, a day when Catholics around the world were encouraged to pray for the church in …
By Shirley Lau Hong Kong, May 12 (EFE).- The arrest in Hong Kong and subsequent release on bail of Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, on charges related to the 2019 pro-democracy protests has unleashed a barrage of international criticism against the latest demonstration of the clampdown on freedoms in the former British territory. Zen, the …