ROME
Chiesa
It is an article by Andrea Tornielli, the vaticanista friendliest with and closest to Bergoglio. It came out four days before the publication of the letter. To expose it and accuse the authors of conspiring against the pope
by Sandro Magister
ROME, October 15, 2015 – Since the letter of the thirteen cardinals to the pope became public knowledge, the Vatican authorities, through Fr. Federico Lombardi, have not passed up an opportunity to censure its publication and, more or less indirectly, its contents and authors.
The latest instance came yesterday, in the daily press conference accompanying the work of the synod, when the director of the Vatican press office took aim for the umpteenth time at “the fateful letter that has received much more attention than it deserves.”
But in that case it is right that the backstory of the publication of the letter from the thirteen cardinals should also be made known. A backstory that is absolutely not to be ignored, after which it became obligatory – for the sake of accurate information – to verify the real state of affairs, the contents of the letter and who had signed it.
The following post says it all.
It came out yesterday only in Italian on the blog “Settimo cielo.” And it appears again here translated into English, French, and Spanish. So that everybody gets it.
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