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Cardinal Zen and the Art of Chinese Oppression – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

China has already crushed political dissent, a free press and an independent judiciary in Hong Kong, and its latest target is religious liberty. That s the message with the arrest Wednesday of Cardinal Joseph Zen.

The Catholic prelate, age 90, was arrested and charged with violating the city s national security law. Also arrested were pro-democracy lawmaker Margaret Ng, pop singer Denise Ho, and academic Hui Po-keung.

via www.wsj.com

It certainly looks for all the world as if the Vatican Department of State is in league with the CCP, which would be very bad. Seems to me it high time for Pope Francis to speak up, He could take JP II as his example.