Greetings, parish orphans and retrogrades.

90-year-old Cardinal Zen has been arrested by the Chinese on trumped-up charges.

We all know what the real underlying cause of the charge are, notwithstanding the pretext.

The pretext is foreign collusion.

He is part of the real authentic Chinese church,

not the communist Chinese party sponsored Catholic Church. And so he's been arrested about 12

hours ago. This is just hitting American media right now. 12 hours in and we still have not

heard hide nor hair from Pope Francis.

I'm going to read to you from this National Review article. Cardinal Zen on the road to martyrdom.

Will Pope Francis please say something? This is Catherine Jean Lopez at National Review.

A secular publication is having to get involved here in this embarrassment where a Pope does

not even stand up on behalf of one of his cardinals who has been persecuted, now prosecuted

and by the Chinese Communist Party.

It begins by saying, 90-year-old, 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen,

Emeritus Bishop of Hong Kong, was arrested yesterday on trumped up national security charges

after Chinese media implied that something like this would happen.

This is how the CCP works.

It's not even a multi-headed hydro. It's all one head. The official Chinese news tells you what they're going to do before they

do it. So they were insinuating all of last week that Zen was in real trouble for being a Catholic,

not being part of the CCP Catholic Party, but the

real underground church in China. We've been talking about this for two years, at least, two and a half

years. Raymond Arroyo has had great coverage on world over consistently. The pillar this morning

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