VATICAN CITY
Scottish Catholic Observer
Media storm of less concern than breach of privacy, says German cardinal about letter to Pope on synod process concerns
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that, while the leak of a letter allegedly sent to Pope Francis by leading cardinals raising concerns over new synod procedures is ‘a new Vatileaks,’ there is no great dispute over the family synod.
The German cardinal (above), who is also Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has declined to confirm whether he signed the letter or not. He did admit to tensions in the synod ‘between doctrine and pastoral approach,’ but added that it is the task of the synod ‘to see these two aspects together.’
“The scandal is that it makes public a private letter of the Pope,” Cardinal Müller said. “This is a new Vatileaks: The Pope’s private documents are private property of the Pope and no one else. No one can publish it, I do not know how that could happen.”
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