The Major Archbishop of Kiev, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, spoke directly of the need of "sending a clear message to the faithful and to the Pope" on the fact that "the family is the stable, faithful, and sacramental union between a man and a woman." The most controversial and delicate points, from the question of the approaching of remarried divorcees to the Eucharist to the overture to homosexual unions, were dismantled almost unanimously. At the end, as Cardinal Christoph Schönborn would say some hours later at the press conference, "the decision to render public the relationes of the circuli was taken by large majority." The texts are clear, and go in an opposite direction as the one upheld by Cardinal Walter Kasper.Ī taste of what was to happen had already been given on late Wednesday by the Cardinal-Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, who sided himself in a clear way to positions taken in the Hall by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. ![]() The Pope, seated at the presidency table, looked on, impassive. And all in the atmosphere of a stadium, with standing ovation and even some booing. Even the Secretary of State took the floor. Léonard, to that of Durban, Cardinal Napier, asked for the matter to be at least put to a vote. After him, a long line of Fathers, from the Archbishop of Brussels, Abp. ![]() Against the novelty presented by Baldisseri, rose up Cardinal George Pell, who strongly contested the decision. Bruno Forte, would have been fed to the press. In other words, only the Relatio post disceptationem, signed by Cardinal Erdo and written by Abp. A reverse course from what had always happened in the past and affirmed in the previous days. ![]() Soon after nine yesterday morning, cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary to the Synod, takes the floor and announces that the relationes of the circuli minores would not be made public. They say that a confrontation like this had never been seen before, perhaps not even at the Council.
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