The most prominent critic of the current Vatican approach to Holy See-China relations is Cardinal Joseph Zen, 86, the Salesian bishop emeritus of Hong Kong. Cardinal Zen served as the bishop of Hong ...

Chinese Catholics from the mainland see this week’s arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen in Hong Kong as an act of intimidation and a signal from the authorities of worsening conditions to come. “It’s a way ...

I have been inside a Chinese prison, and it is grim to say the least. The imprisonment of 90-year-old Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen would be a death sentence. In May 2022, Hong Kong authorities ...

VATICAN CITY — The Holy See must reconsider pastoral guidelines it issued last year encouraging Chinese clergy to join the country’s official state-run church and urgently make its secret 2018 ...

Hong Kong’s Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun is being prosecuted by Chinese government-dominated authorities of the city after his decades of harsh criticism against Beijing’s human rights abuses, ...

A retired Roman Catholic archbishop and outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party is blasting the Vatican's silence on China's efforts to exert more control over Hong Kong, likening it to ...

Retired archbishop of Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen is pictured in Hong Kong, Feb. 9, 2018. (Credit: Vincent Yu/AP.) Listen In a new letter, retired Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen says Vatican ...