Posted on 09/01/2022 12:23:46 PM PDT by Gillibrand1
Cardinal Muller to the Pope: 'Cardinal Zen will be tried by China, the Vatican should not sacrifice him to reasons of state'
On the just-concluded Consistory with almost all the world's cardinals - an event that has not happened since 2014 - the Vatican's silence on the fate of Hong Kong's Cardinal Emeritus Joseph Zen ze-Kiun from China, who is absent from Rome because he is under house arrest for raising his voice against Beijing by defending human rights both in Hong Kong and in China, weighed like a boulder. "Next month there will be an unfair trial. No one has raised the very serious issue of our Brother, Cardinal Zen. Not by the Dean, Cardinal Re, nor by the Secretary of State, Parolin, nor by the Pope. There has been no document of solidarity, no prayer initiative for him'. Speaking in an interview with Il Messaggero is Cardinal Gerhard Muller, renowned theologian and former Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith, editor of Joseph Ratzinger's opera omnia.
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