Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Religion
Related: About this forumLeaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting
Source: Reuters
World | Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:11pm EDT
Leaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
A gathering of world Roman Catholic bishops was thrown into confusion on Monday with the leak of a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis bitterly complaining that the meeting was stacked against them.
It was published by the same Italian journalist whose press credentials were stripped by the Holy See last June after he ran a leaked copy of the pope's major encyclical on the environment.
The gathering, or synod, of more than 300 bishops, delegates and observers, including some married couples, is discussing how the 1.2 billion-member Church can confront challenges facing the modern family.
The bishops are debating ways to defend the traditional family and make life-long marriage more appealing to young people, and at the same time reach out to disaffected Catholics such as homosexuals, co-habiting couples and the divorced.
L'Espresso newsweekly, which published the English-language letter in full, said 13 cardinals signed the letter and one of them hand-delivered it to the pope last week.
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Leaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
A gathering of world Roman Catholic bishops was thrown into confusion on Monday with the leak of a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis bitterly complaining that the meeting was stacked against them.
It was published by the same Italian journalist whose press credentials were stripped by the Holy See last June after he ran a leaked copy of the pope's major encyclical on the environment.
The gathering, or synod, of more than 300 bishops, delegates and observers, including some married couples, is discussing how the 1.2 billion-member Church can confront challenges facing the modern family.
The bishops are debating ways to defend the traditional family and make life-long marriage more appealing to young people, and at the same time reach out to disaffected Catholics such as homosexuals, co-habiting couples and the divorced.
L'Espresso newsweekly, which published the English-language letter in full, said 13 cardinals signed the letter and one of them hand-delivered it to the pope last week.
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/12/us-pope-synod-idUSKCN0S623520151012
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
5 replies, 779 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (2)
ReplyReply to this post
5 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Leaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2015
OP
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)1. a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis
a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis bitterly complaining that the meeting was stacked against them.
Boo hoo hoo, what do they want?
A more reactionary doctrine?
Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)2. Retreat!!!!
Four of the conservative cardinals cited by the magazine later disassociated themselves from the letter. Several said private letters should remain so and one said he signed a similar but different version. And one said his dog signed it.
Iggo
(47,547 posts)3. "...how (to)...confront challenges facing the modern family."
But, but, but the catholic church IS one of the challenges facing the modern family.
Very well played.
Eugene
(61,859 posts)5. Vatican seeks to quell talk of letter to pope on family
Source: Associated Press
Vatican seeks to quell talk of letter to pope on family
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Oct. 13, 2015 2:57 PM EDT
VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican spokesman on Tuesday denounced the leak of a private letter to Pope Francis by conservative cardinals complaining about the way his big family meeting is being run. But he reminded those responsible that the meeting procedures are set and they're duty-bound to stick with them.
Spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi sought to end discussion about the latest controversy to roil Francis' synod on the family after an Italian journalist published the letter Monday and named 13 cardinals who purportedly signed it.
Four of those said they never signed it. But the Vatican's finance manager, Cardinal George Pell, confirmed he was behind the initiative by conservatives to bring complaints straight to the pope about a perceived lack of openness in the synod that they felt would create "predetermined results."
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
And the letter warned if the synod muddied church teaching about marriage, the Catholic Church risked going the way of "liberal" Protestant churches which, according to the letter, had collapsed because they had abandoned "key elements of Christian belief and practice in the name of pastoral adaptation."
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Oct. 13, 2015 2:57 PM EDT
VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican spokesman on Tuesday denounced the leak of a private letter to Pope Francis by conservative cardinals complaining about the way his big family meeting is being run. But he reminded those responsible that the meeting procedures are set and they're duty-bound to stick with them.
Spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi sought to end discussion about the latest controversy to roil Francis' synod on the family after an Italian journalist published the letter Monday and named 13 cardinals who purportedly signed it.
Four of those said they never signed it. But the Vatican's finance manager, Cardinal George Pell, confirmed he was behind the initiative by conservatives to bring complaints straight to the pope about a perceived lack of openness in the synod that they felt would create "predetermined results."
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
And the letter warned if the synod muddied church teaching about marriage, the Catholic Church risked going the way of "liberal" Protestant churches which, according to the letter, had collapsed because they had abandoned "key elements of Christian belief and practice in the name of pastoral adaptation."
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0518b65dd2924103b5e6906dfbeecf24/vatican-seeks-end-case-letter-pope-family