CARDINAL ZEN COUNTERS VATICAN HIT PIECE: Archbishop Viganò rallies to defense of Chinese cardinal
by William Mahoney, Ph.D. • March 2, 2020
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal Joseph Zen has shot down a Vatican letter denouncing his opposition to the 2018 China-Vatican agreement.
In an open letter Sunday, Zen responded to Cdl. Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, who in a Feb. 26 letter accused him of being an obstacle to the Church in China.
Appointed dean in January, Re claimed a continuity between Francis’ approach to China and that of recent predecessors: “In their approach to the situation of the Catholic Church in China, there is a profound symphony of the thought and action of the last three pontificates, which out of respect for the truth have favored dialogue between the two parties, not opposition.”
In response to this claim, Zen quotes from Benedict XVI’s book titled Final Conversations:
The new line pursued by John Paul II was the result of his personal experience, of contact with those powers. Of course then it could not be hoped that the regime would collapse soon, but it was evident that, instead of being conciliatory and accepting compromises, it was necessary to strongly oppose. This was the basic vision of John Paul II, which I shared.
Re also claimed, “Pope Benedict XVI had approved the draft of the agreement on the appointment of bishops in China, which it was only possible to sign in 2018.”
Cdl. Giovanni Battista Re
In response to this assertion, Zen gave the simplest way to solve the matter. “To prove that the signed agreement had already been approved by Benedict XVI,” he said, “just show me the signed text, which I have not been allowed to see to date, and the evidence from the archive, which you have been able to verify. It remains only to be explained why it was not signed then.”
Members of the Catholic Patriotic Association, an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, can no longer be seen as separate from the Pope, according to Re, who said “the expression ‘independent Church’ can no longer be interpreted in an absolute manner as ‘separation’ from the Pope, as was the case in the past.”
Cardinal Zen responded to this wordplay by saying “change in the meaning of the word ‘independence’ I fear exists only in the head of the eminent Secretary of State,” adding the reason could be because of “an incorrect translation from Chinese made by … the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples … who was also responsible for at least 10 errors in the translation of Pope Benedict’s 2007 letter.”
Support From Abp. Viganò
Zen has found an ally in Vatican whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò, who on Saturday came to the cardinal’s defense, calling Re’s accusations “ignominious and shameful.”
In a letter to Zen, Viganò condemned Re’s “ignoble letter to all the cardinals,” saying it “is aimed at accusing … denigrating … and isolating [Cdl. Zen].”
Viganò neatly summarized what continues to play out between the Vatican and China:
The Vatican has done everything and more to deliver the Chinese martyr Church into the hands of the enemy: it did so by signing the secret pact; it did so by legitimizing excommunicated ‘bishops’ who are agents of the regime; it did so by the deposition of legitimate bishops; it did so by forcing faithful priests to register with a church that has succumbed to the Communist dictatorship; it does so on a daily basis by keeping silent about the persecutory fury that has gained unprecedented strength, precisely since the signing of that unfortunate agreement. It is now doing so with this ignoble letter to all the cardinals … .
Writing originally for the Daily Compass, Riccardo Cascioli states Re’s letter “is truly a call to his brother cardinals to isolate Cardinal Zen, even to the point of making one think that the elimination of the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong is part of the secret agreement.”
You [Cdl. Zen] are a courageous confessor of the Faith and you have all my esteem and veneration!Tweet
“Cardinal Re should explain to us why it is that persecution against Catholics in China has intensified since the agreement was signed while the Holy See has remained completely silent,” he adds. “And he should also explain why the Patriotic Association, now recognized by the Holy See, has never expressed so much as a desire for communion with Rome.”
Viganò offered Zen all his affection, prayers and fraternal solidarity in the episcopate.
“You [Cdl. Zen] are a courageous confessor of the Faith and you have all my esteem and veneration!” said Viganò.
Read the source: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/abp-vigano-defends-cdl-zen-against-vatican-letter
CHINESE CATHOLICS PRAY OUTSIDE SHUTTERED CHURCHES
Faithful keep vigil at sanctuaries closed by communists
FUJIAN PROVINCE, China (ChurchMilitant.com) – Catholics in China who refuse to be controlled by the state are continuing to be harassed by communist authorities and subjected to indoctrination to make them join the so-called patriotic church.
New pictures and video show Catholics of the underground Church praying outside churches closed by the government in the diocese of Mindong, China.
The magazine Bitter Winter published photos showing Chinese Catholics praying in the dark outside shuttered churches. Outside one building in Saiqi, a town in Fujian province, parishioners gathered to pray and read the Bible, holding flashlights in the cold wind. Reportedly, the people have refused to accept a priest sent by the government.
The magazine also published photos of documentation issued by local authorities alleging the churches have been closed “for fire-safety reasons.”
Bitter Winter also reported that more than 10 churches in the diocese were closed by Jan. 16, in an area that remains heavily loyal to the underground Catholic Church. Surveillance cameras have been installed outside many churches. Of an estimated 90,000 Catholics and 69 priests in the Mindong diocese, the vast majority are affiliated with the underground Church.
“The government is cunning. Fearing that it will be criticized by the international community again, it disguised the persecution as the demolition of an illegal building so that nobody would associate it with its religious persecution campaigns,” a Catholic from Fu’an, a city in the province, said.
(Bitter Winter)
According to a government insider in the central province of Henan, across China local governments employ a so-called five-on-one control system.
Catholic conscientious objectors are pressured by the United Front Work Department, Public Security Bureau, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, the township government, and village committee, each of which assigns a person to re-educate the objectors. They also harass priests working to transform them to the communist way of thinking and closely surveil them.
The China-Vatican agreement of 2018 was intended to bring the state-run Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) into communion with Rome and unify the Church in China. Indications are persecution of the underground Church has intensified since the agreement was signed.
The contents of the agreement have not been made public and have been the source of much criticism.
Steven Mosher, an American social scientist and China expert, said it is “a betrayal of the Catholic Church in China” on several levels:
It betrays the authority of the papacy by giving the Chinese Communist Party the right to name bishops. It betrays the underground Church in China, a Church which not only has survived decades of persecution at the hands of the authorities but is now, once again, under siege. And — I would argue — because it is a secret agreement, it betrays the truth by allowing both sides to misrepresent it.
Stating “Darkness always hates the light,” Mosher points out that “a secret agreement keeps Catholics in China and around the world in the dark about whatever compromises the Vatican has made. Even worse, it also allows the communist authorities to misrepresent the agreement to the Chinese faithful in whichever way they choose.”
Cardinal Joseph Zen has called the Vatican-China deal “suicide” for the Catholic Church in China.
The Vatican has remained silent on the persecution of Catholics in China’s underground Church.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, recently tried to justify the Vatican-China agreement by saying it represented “a continuity” between Francis’ approach to China with that of his recent predecessors, Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI: “In their approach to the situation of the Catholic Church in China, there is a profound symphony of the thought and action of the last three pontificates, which out of respect for the truth have favored dialogue between the two parties, not opposition.”
Read the source: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/chinese-catholics-pray-outside-government-barred-churches
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“A theory that makes profit the exclusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally unacceptable. The disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social order. A system that ‘subordinates the basic rights of individuals and of groups to the collective organization of production’ is contrary to human dignity. Every practice that reduces persons to nothing more than a means of profit enslaves man, leads to idolizing money, and contributes to the spread of atheism. ‘You cannot serve God and mammon’”(CCC: 2424).
“The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modern times with ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’. She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of ‘capitalism,’ individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor. Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for ‘there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market.’ Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended” (CCC:2425).
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