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In mainland China, Catholic communities have expressed joy at Pope Francis’s choice. For PIME missionary and China expert Fr Gianni Criveller, this is a sign of the pope’s closeness to the suffering caused by China’s national security law. With Zen and John Tong (respectively in their nineties and eighties), Hong Kong will now have three cardinals.
Bishop Stephen Chow presided over the ordination. Cardinal Wu laid on his hands on the first in July 1997, a few days after Hong Kong returned to China. Now some 30 deacons are active in the city, an important sign for all of Asia, the continent with the lowest number of permanent deacons.