UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet
15 December 2014 11:03 by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that some participants’ responses at October’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family were characterised by fear.
In a four-page interview in the December issue of the German theological monthly Herder Korrespondenz, he said he had been most surprised to find that many of his fellow bishops were “afraid” of his suggestion that they recognise the good present in irregular relationships.
Some cardinals had even expressed a longing for authority and had held Russian President Vladimir Putin up as a model, for his defence of family values. This he found “very worrying indeed”.
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