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It took this South African archbishop to clarify in public the true reasons for the letter, which he signed with the others. It all started with the 2014 synod and the maneuvers of some to force its results. Here he is, word for word
by Sandro Magister
ROME, October 21, 2015 – Already four days before the letter of the thirteen cardinals to Francis became public knowledge, he was singled out among the “conspirators” who wanted to sabotage the synod and lash out against the pope himself:
> The Letter of the Thirteen Cardinals. A Key Backstory
And after the publication of the letter, the aggression against him and the other signers continued with even greater vehemence, with the de facto support of the Vatican managers of synod information.
Until the day came, yesterday, Tuesday October 20, on which Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, archbishop of Durban, South Africa, was finally able to speak his mind on the synod and on the letter of the thirteen to the pope, in the official context of the daily press conference moderated by Fr. Federico Lombardi:
Napier took part in the press conference in his capacity as joint president delegate of the synod. An obligatory presence. And it was the first time that one of the thirteen signers of the letter appeared in the Vatican press office after the chaos exploded.
An “ad hoc” question for him couldn’t be left out. And in fact it came, timely and polemical, from a leading journalist of “liberal” American Catholicism, Robert Mickens, founder and director of “Global Pulse Magazine”.
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