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Vatican City – There is no peace under the Dome. Although the encyclical Fratelli Tutti is still fresh in the press and recommends brotherhood to the world, another dispute between cardinals makes it clear how difficult harmony is in the small papal state. This time, it was the tough old Hong Kong cardinal Zen, who had just returned from a failed mission in Rome, who lost his temper. He wanted to be received by the Pope but no one ever showed up and so he returned to pack his suitcase and left with his tail between his legs and regretted not being able to speak face to face with Bergoglio to warn him of the agreement with China. .
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What made him lose patience to the point of blatantly insulting Cardinal Parolin, calling him hypocritical and dishonest, was the speech the Secretary of State made a few days ago in Milan on the thorny issue of relations with Beijing.
Zen fell hard. “I read the speech delivered on October 3 in Milan by Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness. It’s disgusting! Since he is not stupid and ignorant, he has told a series of lies. Zen keeps sinking the sword. «Parolin knows that he is lying, he knows that I know that he is a liar, he knows that I will tell everyone that he is a liar, for that reason, in addition to being shameless, he is also daring. But now what will he not dare to do, I think he is not even afraid of his conscience. Then he raises the bar: “I’m afraid he doesn’t even have faith.”
The long Zen letter focuses on some past episodes. At the source of the anger, the decision to renew the agreement with China clearly emerges in several passages. A passage that in his opinion will be disastrous. What’s wrong with him is the Vatican’s realpolitik and the decision to fire Catholics who have not yet bowed to the communist government, many of whom are persecuted or in prison.
Zen also questions the fact that he always cites Matteo Ricci “as a non-plus-ultra in the history of the Church’s missions in China: this is starting to cause problems for me.” The cardinal accuses Parolin of being inaccurate in the story, of oversimplifying it, of having forgotten that in the past “half the Church ended up in prison and forced labor camps. Let us think of the young members of the Legio Mariae, who entered prison as teenagers and were forty years old (except those who left their lives there).
Finally one last blow. “The most disgusting thing is the insult to the venerable Benedict XVI when he said that he approved at the time the agreement signed by the Holy See two years ago, knowing that our sweetest and most gentle Benedict will certainly not come out to deny it. It is then very ridiculous and humiliating that the innocent Cardinal Re is “used” once again to support the falsehoods of the Eminent Secretary ».
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