Card. Joseph Zen Zekiun, sdb

Since Hong Kong’s return to China, the government has planned control over local schools. The new management committees undermine freedom of education and are likely to twist the Christian and Catholic proposal. The reasons for the hunger strike launched by the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong.

The retired bishop of Hong Kong comments on the recent statement by the Office of Religious Affairs. Non-believing authorities want to lead evangelization and pastoral care. They want to create a schism, they need to find a Luther or Henry VIII. But the harsh winter will end.

The "dire state" of the Church in China is caused by the policy of Beijing, but also by the Vatican policy, too similar to the failed Ostpolitik promoted byCard. Casaroli. Implement dialogue, but without selling out on our faith. Likelihood of schism with bishops who "enthusiastically" obey the regime. A spirit of repentance and conversion for all.

Resistance to the Liu Xiaobo Nobel, the Patriotic Assembly of Catholic Representatives, celebrated as a victory, are a humiliation for China, a major economic power that shamefully ignores human rights. But the participation of bishops and priests in an act against the pope is also a defeat for the Vatican and the Church. A passionate analysis by the emeritus bishop of Hong Kong.

According to some commentators, on his visit to Shanghai the, cardinal advised the local bishop to attend the meeting of Catholic representatives, a body that the pope considers "incompatible with Catholic faith." The Cardinal responds.

Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong comes out against the temptation towards total subservience to the religious policy of the Chinese government, marginalizing the experience of the suffering and underground Church. Risks of the papal letter to Chinese Catholics being manipulated.

There is still a long way to go in relations between Beijing and the Holy See on the appointment of bishops, which is not the result of an "agreement" but a "tug of war." The test of communion with the pope lies in the boycott of the Assembly of Representatives of Chinese Catholics. The tenacious cardinal of Hong Kong responds to an article by Gianni Valente of "30 Days".

With "truth and charity" the Holy See is mending the unity of the Church of Baoding (Hebei) after the decision of the (coadjutor) bishop Francis An Shuxin to join the official Church, becoming vice president of local Patriotic Association. But certain interpretations put forward in an article in the magazine 30Days, penned by Gianni Valente, force Card. Joseph Zen to make some clarifications.

Nearly 1000 days from the Pope's letter to Chinese Catholics, it is hard to see any fruits. But there are some seeds. The most important commitment is reconciliation in the Church, without media exaggerations. The "abnormal interference" of the current government makes "the abnormal secrecy" of the Church still valid. The Cardinal of Hong Kong, a defender of religious freedom, takes stock of the situation.