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Pope Francis received Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun of Hong Kong in a private audience on January 6, at Santa Marta, the Pope’s residence in the Vatican.
Once he had regained his passport, Cardinal Zen took the plane to Rome the very next day, accompanied by a young Salesian confrere, the Rev Carlos Cheung. They travelled via Doha and arrived at Rome airport at 6.00am on Jan 5, the day of the funeral, and made it to the Vatican just in time to take part in the requiem Mass in St Peter’s Square. The cardinal briefly greeted the Pope in the sacristy as he and the other cardinals vested before the Mass.
The audience revealed that there is a deeper bond of faith and friendliness between the Hong Kong cardinal and the Argentine Pope than many realise, even if they are not on the same page over the provisional agreement and some other issues. The two Church leaders first got to know each other on a post-synodal council, where the Chinese cardinal concluded that his Argentine colleague in the College of Cardinals was “very pastoral.
After conversing for some time in the parlour, the cardinal said Pope Francis invited him and Fr Carlos to come upstairs to his private apartment, and there he gave them gifts of books and rosary beads.
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