Zen also criticized “errors” in the Chinese translation of Benedict’s letter, which he said he believed contained “biased quotations against the obvious sense of the letter.”
“Another extraordinary thing he did for the Church in China is the establishment of a powerful Commission to take care of the affairs of the Church in China; unfortunately under the new president of said Commission it has been made to disappear quietly without even a word of respectful farewell,” the cardinal added.
Permission to attend funeral
The former bishop of Hong Kong, who was arrested last year under the city’s national security law, has been allowed by a local court to travel to Rome this week to be present at Benedict XVI’s funeral, according to AFP. After Zen’s passport was confiscated by authorities, a magistrate ruled on Jan. 3 that the 90-year-old cardinal is allowed to leave Hong Kong for five days for the Jan. 5 funeral of the former pope.
Benedict XVI created Zen a cardinal in 2006 and selected the cardinal to write the meditations for the papal Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in 2008, one year before Zen’s retirement as bishop of Hong Kong.
Zen, who in his retirement has been an outspoken critic of the Holy See’s provisional agreement with Beijing, said that he did not believe that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI should have kept quiet after he resigned from the papacy.
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