Cardinal Zen’s trial began on Monday, with yet more pressure on the Vatican
As the trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen got underway this week in Hong Kong, another cardinal has spoken up for the prelate following criticism by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller about the Vatican’s silence on both China’s abuses and Zen’s “unfair” trial. Writing in Italian newspaper Avvenire, the official paper of Italian bishops, Cardinal Fernando Filoni called Zen “a “man of God”; at times intemperate, but submissive to the love of Christ, who wanted him to be his priest” and “not to be condemned”, adding that “Hong Kong, China and the Church have a devoted son in him, not to be ashamed of.”
