austraLasia
#1853
Cardinal Zen visits North
America
HONG KONG: 22nd May
2007 -- Cardinal Zen is
currently making a tour of Chinese emigrant communities in North America,
covering both the Eastern and Western seaboards and some other cities. The
visits began in Los Angeles on 9th May and will continue throughout the US and
Canada until 2nd June. We will undoubtedly pick up more information from
Salesian sources as he moves through the US and Canada.
Cardinal Zen celebrated Mass for the Salesian administered Chinese Parish of St
Bridget in Los Angeles on 10th May. It was a weekday so numbers were
down. The parish priest is Fr John Lam sdb. The Cardinal is making
his first visit as Cardinal, to North America. He visited earlier (2000)
as Bishop.
Cardinal Zen will be visiting Boston, Chicago,
New York, San Francisco and Washington DC in the US as well as Calgary,
Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. Last Sunday May 20th, the Cardinal
celebrated Mass in Cantonese at St Agnes Kouying Tsao Catholic Church (not a
Salesian parish) where the 1,000 or more parishioners watched him install the
relics of Saint Joannes Dufresse, a bishop of the Paris Foreign Missions
Society. The bishop, as also St Agnes Tsao, are among the Chinese martyrs
canonized along with Sts Louis Versiglia and Callistus Caravario, Salesians, in
2000.
On the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, 24th May,
Cardinal Zen will open a meeting of the North American Chinese Clergy and Laity
Association in Chicago. He will also receive an honorary doctorate from Amherst
College, near Boston.
In his talks to Chinese Catholics,
as he moves through the two countries, Cardinal Zen is heightening expectations
of the Pope's Pastoral Letter to Chinese Catholics, once thought to be likely
for publication at Easter, but now predicted as possibly for
Pentecost.
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