Their last reported private audience was in 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - A 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal who has criticised the Vatican’s dealings with China received a private audience with Pope Francis on Friday, according to the Jesuit-run America Magazine.investigated under Hong Kong’s national security law after his arrest last yearHe is among the scores of democracy campaigners facing legal threats in Hong Kong as China stamps out dissent in the financial hub after huge and often violent protests in 2019.
Cardinal Zen has accused the Vatican in recent years of “selling out” China’s underground Catholic community after Pope Francis sought to improve ties with Beijing. Cardinal Zen thanked Pope Francis for appointing Jesuit Stephen Chow in 2021 to lead Hong Kong’s Catholic diocese, giving the city “a good bishop”, America Magazine reported.
The cardinal was only allowed to be out of Hong Kong for five days and had to leave the Vatican on Saturday.
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