Cardinal holds hopes for Matteo Ricci canonisation
ROME (SE): “China has already honoured him and now it is possible that the pope too will honour him declaring him a saint,” the bishop of Hong Kong, John Cardinal Tong Hon, said of the great Jesuit missionary to China, Father Matteo Ricci, who died in Beijing in 1610.
Dialogue and culture are top priority Cardinal Tong insists
HONG KONG (SE): The appeal from the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Fernando Cardinal Filoni, to the authorities in Beijing to reopen a dialogue with the Holy See highlights an extremely important issue, the bishop of Hong Kong, John Cardinal Tong Hon, told Vatican Insider on October 28 in Rome.
