A prelate in the mould of Cardinal Mindszenty
Fr Ollevier Willy, a Belgian priest of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Fr Huang Chuan-sheng take part in a protest in Taipei, Taiwan, against the arrests of veteran democracy advocates under Hong Kong’s national security law. One of the placards read: ‘Cardinal Joseph Zen is innocent.’
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The Vatican response to the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen should concern us all, writes David Quinn In February 1949, the head of the Catholic Church in Hungary, Cardinal József Mindszenty, was sentenced to life in prison by the country’s communist government, one that had been put into power by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s communist dictator.…