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[Catholic Caucus] ANALYSIS OF THE ANSWERS GIVEN TO THE 5 DUBIA AS ORIGINALLY FORMULATEDThe five Cardinals of the 5 Dubia presented to the Pope on July 10, 2023 did not publish the Pope’s responses on July 11, because these were not precise responses and did not resolve the doubts. Now, since the Holy See has published them, it seems appropriate to me that we respond to those answers, so that the faithful understand why the five of us did not find them adequate as answers. Given the time pressure, I did not consult the other four Cardinals and therefore I...

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...

The 90-year-old prelate has been shortly detained together with an academic, a barrister, and a singer and LGBT activist with the pretext of his past activity in the now-defunct 612 Fund.May 11 will be remembered as a crucial and terrible day in the history of the CCP’s attack of human rights and religious freedom in Hong Kong. The police arrested, then released on bail, four former trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. Established in 2019, the fund provided emergency relief, legal assistance, and psychological counseling to pro-democracy protesters mistreated by the police or arrested. It was compelled to disband...

Four articles in Ta Kung Pao slam the cardinal for the 2019 protest movement and the pro-democracy movement, which was recently muzzled by the authorities under the security law. The move could herald a crackdown against religious activities in Hong Kong with Catholic and Protestant schools as the first targets.Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – The Chinese-language press has started to target 90-year-old Card Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong and a well-known supporter of the local pro-democracy movement, this according to Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, writing in The Epoch Times. In the...

China & the Vatican -- Cardinal Zen: "Parolin knows he is lying. He knows that I know he is a liar. He knows that I will tell everyone that he is a liar." For Love of Truth I Will Not Remain Silent Cardinal Joseph ZenBishop Emeritus of Hong Kong I read the speech given by Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness, in Milan on October 3. [Rorate: in that speech, Cardinal Parolin defended the Vatican's attitude and deal, and the confirmation of the deal, with Communist China.] It was sickening! He is in no way stupid or ignorant, he...

American Lawyer Takes on Chinese Regime and the Catholic Church A lawyer who has spent her career working for the welfare of missing and trafficked children has now turned her efforts to protecting the religious rights of children in China.On June 2, Liz Yore filed three submissions to the United Nations special rapporteur (SR) on freedom of belief and religion. The first details religious rights abuses of Chinese children, while the second outlines the imprisonment by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of two Catholic bishops, one of whom has been detained for 25 years, whose whereabouts are unknown.The third, says...

HONG KONG, June 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― An elderly cardinal is one of the faces of Hong Kong’s desire for freedom. Cardinal Joseph Zen, 87, took part in a video protesting the erosion of the freedoms of the citizens of Hong Kong. “This is a video announcement of the march that took place on June 9th to protest the new extradition law that the Hong Kong Legislative Council has been told (by Communist China) to pass,” Steve Mosher explained to LifeSiteNews by email. “It means the end of the rule of law in Hong Kong. Any person who speaks out...

21 June 2007 The Zen of President Bush CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 9:52 am This is a really interesting story in the WaPo about President bush and one of WDTPRS’s favorite cardinals, H.E. Joseph Card. Zen Ze-Kiun.   Biretta tip to Argent   o{]:¬) A Chinese Cardinal Meets the Real Bush By Robert D. Novak Thursday, June 21, 2007; A23 On May 31, President Bush met for 35 minutes in the private living quarters of the White House with Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Hong Kong, in an event that was not announced and did...