Unholy War of Words Breaks Out Over Vatican's Gambit on China

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Philip Pullella, Unholy War of Words Breaks Out Over Vatican Rapprochement With China. Reuters, Feb 8, 2018.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top- ... ochement-with-china

Note:
(a) "Father Bernardo Cervellera, head of the AsiaNews agency, which specializes in China, accused Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the head of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, of being 'naive.' * * * Cervellera wrote in an editorial headlined 'Sanchez Sorondo in Wonderland.' "
(i) AsiaNews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsiaNews
("is an official press agency of the Roman Catholic Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME). The editor-in-chief of AsiaNews is Father Bernardo Cervellera, a PIME missionary")
(ii) Both below are from AsiaNews website (both dated Feb 7, 2018):
(A) report:
Msgr. Sanchez Sorondo: China, the best implementer of the social doctrine of the Church.
www.asianews.it/news-en/Msgr.-Sanchez-Sorondo:-China,-the-best-implementer-of-the-social-doctrine-of-the-Church-43033.html
(B) opinion (which is my word):
Bernardo Cervellera, Msgr. Sanchez Sorondo in Wonderland.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/M ... nderland-43037.html

"But perhaps he [Sorondo] is not referring to these mass expulsions, which are very similar to a fruit of the 'culture of waste' so highly criticized by Pope Francis."

The more extensive quotation is "to counter the culture of waste and disposable" -- Pope Francis at General Audience on June 5, 2013.

(b) "Zen, known for his feistiness, did not take it lying down."

Take This Lying Down. The Phrase Finder, undated.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/44/messages/853.html