ROME
Chiesa
Text and names of signers confirmed, apart from marginal inaccuracies. Absolutely certain, above all, is what is at stake: control of the procedures, decisive for the outcome of the synod
by Sandro Magister
ROME, October 14, 2015 – Two days ago, the article posted on www.chiesa in the early morning burst like a bomb inside and outside the enclosure of the synod on the family:
Thirteen Cardinals Have Written to the Pope. Here’s the Letter
Over the next few hours, four of the thirteen cardinals indicated in the article as signatories of the letter denied that they had endorsed it. In order: cardinals Angelo Scola, André Vingt-Trois, Mauro Piacenza, and Péter Erdõ.
But in the afternoon two high-ranking cardinals, both present on the list from www.chiesa, said that they had in fact signed a letter to Pope Francis.
The first was Australian cardinal George Pell, prefect in the Vatican of the secretariat for the economy, indicated as the one who had personally delivered the letter to the pope. And he did so with a statement to the “National Catholic Register”:
A spokesperson for Cardinal Pell…
In the statement, Pell says that “it seems that there are errors in both the content and the list of signatories.”
But he doubles back to insist on two of the “concerns” brought to the pope’s attention in the letter published by www.chiesa.
The first with regard to those at the synod – a “minority” – who “want to change the Church’s teachings on the proper dispositions necessary for the reception of
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