港荣休主教陈日君警告教宗中梵协议致分裂

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(1) 港荣休主教陈日君警告教宗中梵协议致分裂. VOA Chinese, Sept 17, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/new ... 180917/4574819.html

the first three paragraphs:

"美国彭博通讯社周日报道，香港一向敢言的荣休枢机主教陈日君近期致函教宗方济各，对传出梵蒂冈将和中国就主教任命达成协议发出警告，指天主教教会在亚洲可能因此面临分裂。

"报道表示，现年86岁的陈日君上个月透露，他今年7月给教宗写信，批评这类协议虽然能排除和北京建立外交关系的障碍，但可能将造成当地信徒分裂。

"陈日君表示，教宗方济各太过乐观，不了解中国政府，没有和中共政权交手的经验。陈日君认为，教廷并不了解习近平的意图，希望教宗提防身旁的人。

My comment: There is no need to read the rest, because that is all there is about the Bloomberg report. The rest is background, which we are all familiar.

(2) The above report is based on

John Follain, As Pope Faces Crisis in Rome, Cardinal Warns of Split in China. Bloomberg, Sept 16, 2018.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... s-of-split-in-china

Note: " 'I said that, "I'm really worried not about you, Your Holiness, but about the people around you," ' Zen said. 'I said, "The things your collaborators are doing" -- and I used a really bad Italian word, macchinando [plotting] -- "will have tragic and long-lasting effects, not only for the Church in China, but for the whole Church." ' " (brackets original)
(a) Italian-English dictionary:
* macchinando: "gerund of macchinare"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/macchinando
(b) Both Italian verb macchinare and English verb machinate are descendants of Latin verb "machinari [to plot], from [Latin noun feminine] machina machine, contrivance."
machinate (v; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machinate