Hong Kong's new Catholic bishop wants plurality respected

Hong Kong’s incoming Roman Catholic bishop Stephen Chow has called for plurality to be respected, in a time of polarization in the city's Catholic community

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong’s incoming Roman Catholic bishop Stephen Chow called for plurality to be respected, in a time of polarization in the Catholic community as the city’s political situation deteriorates. Chow said while he had “no big plan” on how to unify a diocese that had become politically polarized over the last two years amid months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong, he believed that God wanted them to be united. “Unity is not the same as uniformity,” Chow said at a news conference Tuesday. “One thing I’ve always mentioned recently in schools is (there is) unity is plurality. “We need to respect plurality,” he said.