Why is Cardinal Ambongo facing a legal threat?

The letter accused the cardinal of “seditious behavior” and ordered the opening of an investigation.

An official document appeared on social media this past weekend that triggered alarm among Catholics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, pictured in Paris, France, in 2019. François-Régis Salefran via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

It was a letter dated April 27 and signed by Firmin Mvonde Mambu, the attorney general at the co…