A Vatican Bishop Lauds China

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(1) 'China Is the Best Implementer of Catholic Social Doctrine,' Says Vatican Bishop. London: Catholic Herald, Feb 6, 2018.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/ ... ays-vatican-bishop/

Note:
(a) "Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo [1942- ; Argentine], chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences"
(i) Male given name Mark (Latin: Marcus; meaning god Mars or god of war) has a diminutive Marcellus. The French, Occitan and Catalan form of the latter is Marcel, whose pronunciation:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marcel
(ii) There is a en.wikipedia.org page for Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1936- ; in Vatican City) -- without "Social" -- so is its official website (in either Italian or English).
(b) "Bishop Sánchez Sorondo said that China was implementing Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si' better than many other countries"
(i) encyclical (adj & n; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encyclical
(ii) Laudato si'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27
(c) "You cannot think that the China of today is the China of John Paul II, or Cold War Russia"

John Paul II  (1920 – 2005; pope 1978-2005; Polish; He is mentioned maybe because Joseph ZEN in his Feb 5, 2018 Facebook posting (in Chinese) cited John Paul II.)


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(2) Andrés Beltramo Álvarez, 'Chinos, quienes mejor realizan la doctrina social de la Iglesia.' Vatican Insider, Feb 2, 2018 (reported from Vatican; written in Spanish)
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/0 ... wtlkeuN/pagina.html

Note:
(a)  Google translates the title into English: 'Chinese, who best realize the social doctrine of the Church'
(b) Spanish-English dictionary:
* For quienes, see quien (pronoun; from Latin pronoun masculine quī who, which, that; plural quienes): "who, whom"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quien
* iglesia (noun feminine; from Ancient Greek ekklēsía assembly): "(Christianity) church"  (English adjective ecclesiastical  -- as in "ecclesiastical law" -- came from the same Greek word.  The Spanish noun masculine for "English" (language or Englishman) is Inglés.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iglesia