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[Catholic Caucus] Zen: Why Francis Fired Cardinal FiloniCardinal Zen writes on OldYosef.hkdavc.com (November 21) that we are living in the last days of human history.In this context he lists facts about the Vatican's betrayal of the Chinese Church.Francis' legitimation of seven illegitimate State bishops, two of them married, is for Zen even worse than the secret Vatican-China agreement which is used “to demand everything from the Catholic faithful.”Zen informs that Cardinal Filoni, the former Prefect of the Mission Congregation, was helping the Chinese Catholics telling them “not to be cheated" because "it is not in the agreement.”For Zen this was...

Macau, China – The prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, said today in Macau that the “pastoral agreement” between the Vatican and China “will greatly help the Catholic Church” in the country. Fernando Filoni presided over the official inauguration of the new facilities of the University of Saint Joseph in Macau, which gathered more than 500 people in the auditorium to attend Mass. Macau and Hong Kong are the only places in all of China where the pope’s authority is accepted. On the sidelines of the event, the cardinal stressed to the journalists that...