Cardinal Zen keeps battering at the wall of silence at the Vatican regarding China:
“Doesn’t the bible say we should always speak the truth?” asked Cardinal Joseph Zen, hitting back at Archbishop Paul Gallagher’s claim that grandstanding statements may not be effective.
In a recent interview with media outlet America, the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States sought to explain why the Pope has been silent on Beijing’s human rights abuses and crackdown on Hong Kong. “I think you will find it true that the Holy See does not have a policy, a diplomatic policy, of denunciation almost anywhere in the world,” Gallagher said.
In a blog entry on Wednesday, Zen, who served as the sixth Bishop of Hong Kong, rebutted some of Gallagher’s arguments, blasting them as “inconsistent with facts and self-contradictory.”
Zen cited historical cases where the Holy See have publicly spoken out against unjust regimes. They include Cupimus inprimis (1952), an apostolic letter of Pope Pius XII to all the faithful in China amid political persecution and Non abbiamo bisogno (1931), where Pope Pius XI exhorted followers to speak out against Mussolini’s regime.
The 89-year-old also quoted Pope Benedict XVI’s letter to the Church in China in 2007, where he wrote that “compliance with those authorities is not acceptable when they interfere unduly in matters regarding the faith and discipline of the Church.”
While Gallagher stressed it is important to know if a statement may produce positive change or further complicate the situation, Zen questioned what constitutes positive change and if that should be viewed from the perspective of faith or measured by the stakes of this world.
“If the church only speaks with the expectation for a positive change, then the church might as well not say anything at all,” he added.
Go here to read the rest. Pope Francis is what Pope Francis is: a Leftist ideologue who usually has zip concern about the victims of Leftist regimes. That is bad enough. What is even worse are almost all the Cardinals who are either toadies or embrace cowardly silence. These men stand revealed as careerists who view their jobs as their earned thirty pieces of silver. Such shepherds sell their sheep by the pound to the wolves.
Cardinal Zen is a true apostle of Christ. God bless him for continuing to speak out against the ChiComs. He is a shepherd who is not abandoning his flock. Wish that we had a pope like St. JPII who had experienced the evils of socialism under the Nazis and Communists to support Cardinal Zen. This old, addled, mean man who sits on the Chair of Peter denounces capitalism and strong Western militaries, yet enjoys the fruits of capitalism and the security that those militaries provide. All the while supporting a cruel, atheistic regime whose goal is to crush Catholicism and Christianity in Hong Kong and the rest of China and dominate the world.
Just how much money does the Chinese regime contribute to the Vatican?
One of the last Great Cardinals defending human dignity and fighting against tyranny. We used to have Cardinal Sin of Manila vs the Marcos Dictatorship, Pope John Paul II fighting against communism as both a Cardinal and Pope in Poland and around the world,