The Chinese government, which had withdrawn the passport of Cardinal
Joseph Zen, 92, has "allowed" him to travel to Rome for 10 days to
address the Cardinals.
His address was published in full on the Substack.com account The Pillar.
Noteworthy: Cardinal Zen did not mention the Vatican's betrayal of Chinese Catholics by the China pact in his speech.
Cardinal Zen spoke for 15 minutes, although he was only given 5, mainly about the ex-synod.
He
knows that the Church is "at a crucial moment of confusion and
division" and that "a grave responsibility" rests on the shoulders of
the cardinals who will elect the next Pope.
For Zen, the word
reform is "magical, especially for young people, but also dangerous". A
reform must not undermine the essential elements of the Church founded
by Jesus Christ - one, holy, catholic and apostolic.
Cardinal Zen
denounced that "with the rise of atheistic philosophies in modern times
and the resulting moral collapse, the Church is facing an unprecedented
attack".
He believes that the Second Vatican Council came at the
right time to strengthen the Church, but unfortunately, and despite
orthodox post-conciliar popes, it was wrongly received. Zen blames the
so-called 'spirit of the Council' for the Church's crisis.
On the
subject of homosexual abuse, Cardinal Zen notices that it was being
used as a pretext to change the Church's constitution. Furthermore,
clericalism was blamed instead of sexual vices, which doubled the
humiliation and discouragement of faithful priests.
Finally,
Cardinal Zen warns that synodality was "a matter of life and death for
the Church", since the conclusions of the ex-synod would bring the
Church closer to "Anglican practice": "How will the unity of the
Catholic Church be preserved?"
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