ROME
Crux
By Michael O’Loughlin, Inés San Martín, and John L. Allen Jr.
Crux Staff October 12, 2015
ROME — Two high-profile cardinals taking part in the Synod of Bishops on the family offered different views on Monday about some elements of the process, with one scoffing at charges of manipulation and stacking the deck, and another saying there are real uncertainties and doubts.
Cardinals Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., and Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban, South Africa, spoke Monday afternoon in separate Crux interviews.
Wuerl is part of a 10-member drafting committee charged with producing the synod’s final document, a role he also held last year during the 2014 edition of the synod. Napier, who was added to that group halfway through in 2014, is currently serving as one of four delegate presidents at the 2015 synod.
Wuerl is known as a moderate on most political and theological questions, while Napier emerged during the 2014 synod as a leader of the conservative opposition to progressive proposals on matters such as divorce and homosexuality.
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