My Take | Former Hong Kong cardinal fails to accept Vatican reality
Churchman has over the years criticised diplomatic overtures to Beijing and now he has told the Pope the Catholic Church is being sold out in China
Someone wrote that retired cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun hates the Chinese communist government more than he loves the Pope. That sounds just about right.
The octogenarian churchman always seems to have preferred politics over religion, whether it is about electoral reform in Hong Kong or his anti-communism directed at the mainland.
Now, he has spilled the beans on his boss, Pope Francis; well, that is, not counting The Father upstairs.
Vatican rebukes ex-cardinal after remarks on ‘selling out’ of Chinese Catholics
Zen has been escalating his rhetoric in recent years against the Vatican’s diplomatic overtures to Beijing.
Now, he has disclosed a private conversation he had with Francis early in January in his personal blog and openly accused “the Vatican [of] selling out the Catholic Church in China”[,] “in spite of the danger of being accused of breach of confidentiality”.
