CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN SOUNDS ALARM ON GLOBALIZATION, CHINA, COVID: Shares wisdom on dangerous currents today in context of Catholic faith
HONG KONG (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal Joseph Zen took to social media Wednesday night, sounding as if he were a professor in an international virtual classroom lecturing on the ramifications of globalization, the threat of China and the effects of the Wuhan virus.
Zen begins his discourse by calling it “A short reflection on the tragic reality which is still in the happening” which is “a pandemic of apocalyptical dimension, causing incalculable loss of lives and of economic resources.”
Zen admits we don’t see an end to the pandemic yet, but encourages us to “take stock of some obvious facts and analyze their cause-effect relation,” because “by doing so we can prepare ourselves for the rebuilding of our society and providing new defenses in the future for our humanity.”
The Threat of Globalization
In order to do this we must recognize a few facts, he says. The first fact, according to Zen, is that we must understand the pandemic began in China, and quickly spread around the whole world. “It must have something to do with globalization,” he remarks. The world has become a metaphorically smaller place, and Zen expounds on two general movements of the modern world that have made it so — mass transportation and mass communication. The first contributed to the Wuhan virus spreading internationally, and the second could have prevented it from happening.
“The enormously increased mobility of the people explains, in part, the fast spreading of the pandemic,” says Zen. “But the modern progress in communication could provide timely alarm and contain that spreading. Obviously something went wrong,” he says.
Zen considers the value of globalism: It “is an ambivalent phenomenon,” he says. “It may be good, it may be bad, it depends on the way we manage it.”
He turns to Pope St. John Paul II to illustrate: “Pope John Paul II used to distinguish a ‘globalization of solidarity’ from a ‘globalization of marginalization.’ One is operated by people who care for the real good of all human beings, the other is driven by selfish interest of individuals and groups.”
One is motivated by charity and solidarity, the other by selfishness and marginalization, he explains.
Exploitation in the ‘Village’
Zen then begins expounding on today’s globalization movement and China’s role in it.
“Many people welcomed the arrival of globalization,” he recalls, “with the world becoming a ‘village,’ a ‘big family.’ Cooperation and mutual help would make the world better.” People of goodwill who are rich and strong could help the poor and weak, he explains. “But, alas, the actual outcome was much disappointing,” he lamented.
A question to ponder, he suggested, is why there have been so many protests of meetings related to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
“The answer is,” he suggests, “the poor of the poor countries did not feel they got any help from this globalized economy of the world.” They are not benefitting.
“Those running the economic globalization are the world’s rich and strong. They are meant to help the poor countries, but too often they end up by helping the governments of the poor countries.” These governments, Zen explains, include the relatively few rich and powerful people within poor countries. “The poor people of the poor countries have not been invited to take [an] active part in the process,” he says.
As the selfish imbalance in human nature plays out on the global scene, China went from a formerly poor country to a world power — a model and hope for poor people around the world, Zen explains. Yet, he challenges this perception.
Distinguish Regime vs. Its People
“We have to distinguish between the people and the nation,” he says. The nation has become strong because of its population size and the industriousness of its people. However, he says, China is a totalitarian state.
In a totalitarian regime the people contribute to the wealth of the nation, but they don’t get a fair share in its prosperity. In China the people are slaves under the [Chinese] Communist Party (CCP). To slaves it is not allowed the luxury of dignity. Under the dominion and bad example of their masters, the Chinese people have lost their traditional virtues. In a world of “struggle for survival,” they make recourse to lies and violence, just like their masters. China became a threat to the world.
Zen added that the world, in its dealings with China, wittingly or unwittingly has become “accomplices in nourishing a dangerous monster.” Zen explains it is the party leaders who become rich, off the backs of the people. And in a global village, he warns, “for the CCP … exploiting their countrymen to being the imperialists exploiting the other countries, there is just one step.”
In true communist form, [Chinese President] “Xi Jinping presents himself to many Asian and African nations as the savior — the one who can free them from the poverty in which they were left by their colonizers.” They lend money, send workers and before long the money goes back to China and the poor countries are fully indebted to them. “The new colonizers are worse than the old ones!” Zen decries.
Pandemic Offers a Lesson
Now comes a pandemic, Zen says, and it is waking everyone up.
“Can we be proud of our scientific progress, of the many possibilities of more consumption? All a sudden we are losing everything and find ourselves powerless,” he observes.
He reminds us that in the midst of chaos we know truth, freedom and gospel values are what’s important.
“We discover that the real heroes are not those we used to admire on the screen, but those who sacrifice themselves in serving the sick, those who take care to keep clear and healthy our environment,” he says.
Those who love God and neighbor are the true heroes, he alludes, and always have been.
“We appreciate our Faith, which teaches us we are children of God — brothers and sisters in the human family,” he adds.
And, as if to say the virus has been a needed form of chastisement, Zen concludes: “Thank you, Lord, for this lesson from the pandemic.”
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Bella Dodd: Former Communist said, “In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within” http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/07/bella-dodd-former-communist-said-in-the-1930s-we-put-eleven-hundred-men-into-the-priesthood-in-order-to-destroy-the-church-from-within/
VIDEO: Taylor Marshall discusses the plot to destroy the church from within http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/08/07/video-taylor-marshall-discusses-the-plot-to-destroy-the-church-from-within/
POLISH PRIEST FR. DARIUSZ OKO: THOSE WHO PUSHED COMMUNISM NOW PUSH GENDER IDEOLOGY http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/25/polish-priest-fr-dariusz-oko-those-who-pushed-communism-now-push-gender-ideology/
AMERICA ESSAY ENCOURAGES CATHOLICS TO EMBRACE COMMUNISM: Fr. James Martin is editor at large of America http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/25/america-essay-encourages-catholics-to-embrace-communism-fr-james-martin-is-editor-at-large-of-america/
Pope Francis’s Socialist Agenda http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/11/pope-franciss-socialist-agenda/
THE VORTEX: (NOT) MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – Too many US bishops are socialists at heart http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/04/04/the-vortex-not-making-america-great-again-too-many-us-bishops-are-socialists-at-heart/
THE VORTEX: HERE COME THE SOCIALISTS – Little by little, gaining more attention http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/06/the-vortex-here-come-the-socialists-little-by-little-gaining-more-attention/
VATICAN SEX SUMMIT REPORT: DAY TWO – Communism makes a comeback in Rome http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/02/22/vatican-sex-summit-report-day-two-communism-makes-a-comeback-in-rome/
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America, specializing in the fields of Marxist-Leninist propaganda and ideological subversion http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/02/08/kgb-defector-yuri-bezmenovs-warning-to-america-specializing-in-the-fields-of-marxist-leninist-propaganda-and-ideological-subversion/
The Naked Communist: They even told us how they’d do it and we still feel for it… http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/01/31/the-naked-communist-they-even-told-us-how-theyd-do-it-and-we-still-feel-for-it/
PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA’S NICARAGUA: CATHEDRAL DESECRATED, PRIEST AND NUNS ATTACKED http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/11/20/president-daniel-ortegas-nicaragua-cathedral-desecrated-priest-and-nuns-attacked/
Nicaragua: Cardinal Brenes celebrates Mass of atonement at parish attacked by paramilitary groups http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2018/07/23/nicaragua-cardinal-brenes-celebrates-mass-of-atonement-at-parish-attacked-by-paramilitary-groups/
Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Jose Brenes Solorzano Condemns Government Attacks http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2018/07/21/nicaraguan-cardinal-leopoldo-jose-brenes-solorzano-condemns-government-attacks/
Nicaragua: Nuncio Appeals for Peace in Pope’s Name – Three-month Reign of Violence Claims Hundreds of Lives http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2018/07/18/nicaragua-nuncio-appeals-for-peace-in-popes-name-three-month-reign-of-violence-claims-hundreds-of-lives/
Cardinal Baltasar Porras: ‘Venezuela is suffering from a wartime economy’ – Interview with Aid to the Church in Need http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/23/cardinal-baltasar-porras-venezuela-is-suffering-from-a-wartime-economy-interview-with-aid-to-the-church-in-need/
Venezuelan bishops call for an end to repression and denounce Church assault http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/05/02/venezuelan-bishops-call-for-an-end-to-repression-and-denounce-church-assault/
Civil disobedience is a fundamental right, says Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/22/civil-disobedience-is-a-fundamental-right-says-venezuelan-cardinal-baltazar-porras/
Venezuela: Bishops Speak Out Over Electricity Blackout – ‘In this time of legal darkness, there has been added a literal darkness’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/20/venezuela-bishops-speak-out-over-electricity-blackout-in-this-time-of-legal-darkness-there-has-been-added-a-literal-darkness/
Venezuela’s power struggle reaches a tense stalemate, as human suffering deepens http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/04/12/venezuelas-power-struggle-reaches-a-tense-stalemate-as-human-suffering-deepens/
Venezuela: Fleeing Migrants Suffer Acute Malnutrition – Caritas Reports on Efforts to Help the Hungry; Bishop to Maduro: Open your eyes to see the suffering of the people http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/02/14/venezuela-fleeing-migrants-suffer-acute-malnutrition-caritas-reports-on-efforts-to-help-the-hungry/
Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa warns President Maduro over deaths of protestors http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/08/03/venezuelan-cardinal-jorge-urosa-warns-president-maduro-over-deaths-of-protestors/
HOW’S SOCIALISM DOING IN VENEZUELA? http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/08/28/hows-socialism-doing-in-venezuela/
Venezuela’s Bishops Ask Leaders to Think of Their People http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/12/23/venezuelas-bishops-ask-leaders-to-think-of-their-people/
A Socialist Venezuela has a bread shortage: The government has decided bakers are the problem http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/03/19/a-socialist-venezuela-has-a-bread-shortage-the-government-has-decided-bakers-are-the-problem/
Our Story – Venezuela’s Secret & 21st Century Socialism http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/05/29/our-story-venezuelas-secret-21st-century-socialism/
Venezuela’s socialist hell http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/04/24/venezuelas-socialist-hell/
VENEZUELAN ARCHBISHOP DIEGO PADRON CONDEMNS SOCIALIST-INSPIRED ANTI-CATHOLIC ATTACKS http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/02/17/venezuelan-archbishop-diego-padron-condemns-socialist-inspired-anti-catholic-attacks/
Venezuelan government blasted for blocking Church aid http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/07/12/venezuelan-government-blasted-for-blocking-church-aid/
VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO FEUDING WITH CATHOLIC CHURCH http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/02/03/venezuelas-president-nicolas-maduro-feuding-with-catholic-church/
College for Venezuelan priests in Rome closes its doors due to the crisis in the country http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/07/14/college-for-venezuelan-priests-in-rome-closes-its-doors-due-to-the-crisis-in-the-country/
Venezuela: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Read the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela
The Catholic Church vs. Liberation Theology http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/12/14/the-catholic-church-vs-liberation-theology/
“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).