Card. Zen – HERO

There are so many good reasons to look with respect and gratitude to His Eminence Joseph Card. Ze-Kiun, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong. His steadfast stance for human rights, for example, is courageous and exemplary.

He is also a staunch support of the tradition Roman Rite.

Here is a piece from National Catholic Register.

Cardinal Zen’s Bold Latin Mass Statement Sends Multiple Messages to Hong Kong
The retired Hong Kong cardinal led a Eucharistic procession after celebrating a Latin Mass on June 22.

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun knew exactly what he was doing when he posted online a photo of himself leading a Eucharistic procession after saying a traditional Latin Mass in Hong Kong, and he is sending multiple messages with it, a friend of his told the Register.

Among the intended recipients are Catholics in the Diocese of Hong Kong and Pope Leo XIV, who has yet to signal his intentions with respect to the Latin Mass, said Mark Simon, who has known Cardinal Zen since 1996.

“He’s talking to his own people, letting them know he’s still there. And he is, of course, in favor of the Latin Mass,” Simon said by telephone.

“He’s saying it,” Simon said, referring to the Latin Mass, “and by saying it, he’s letting Leo know where he stands.”

Simon, an American, runs businesses owned by Jimmy Lai, a Catholic supporter of democracy in Hong Kong who has been imprisoned by the authorities there since December 2020. Lai is a friend and supporter of Cardinal Zen.

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Marking Corpus Christi Sunday, Cardinal Zen, 93, retired bishop of Hong Kong, posted a photo of himself holding a monstrance with a Eucharistic Host in it under an umbrella, along with a four-paragraph write-up in Cantonese and English describing a Eucharistic procession at a parish church in Hong Kong after a Latin Mass.

“After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary, Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong, I led a Eucharistic procession, bringing the Holy Eucharist out of the church and through the streets of the campus,” Cardinal Zen wrote in the social-media post Sunday, with parentheses in the original.

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Certainly read the rest there!