More reflections on the Pope's letter: Heyndrickx v. Zen Edition!
Adam Minter at Shanghai Scrap continues his discussion on the recent pastoral letter to China:
I feel comfortable stating that - diplomatic track, aside - China's Catholics are actively grappling with how to respond to and obey the Pope's letter and its call for reconciliation between adherents of the open and underground churches. Alas much of that grappling is out of sight of the media. Yet there are public hints as to what’s happening, and perhaps the best ones have been dropped in a terse public exchange between a Belgian priest and a Hong Kong cardinal, both of whom have long-standing ties to China's Catholic Church, but neither of whom can be said to belong to it.