Why Francis Promotes Liberal Cardinal Danneels
An anonymous cardinal has told English journalist Damian Thompson why Pope Francis invited pro-gay Cardinal Godfried Danneels to the Synod of the Family (2014), although Danneels had covered up abuses.
"To thank him for votes [in the 2013 conclave]" - the cardinal said according to Thompson (Twitter, August 20).
But Danneels' invitation by Francis to the synod caused a public scandal.
Danneels retired in January 2010. In April of the same year he told the nephew of then Brugge Bishop Robert Vangheluwe, a liberal, to remain silent about homosexual abuses he suffered from his uncle.
Danneels was a member of the so called St Gallen mafia, a group of cardinals and bishops that started in 1996 a secret plot (“no notes”, “discretion required”) to elect a liberal pope - preferably Jorge Bergoglio.
Picture: Godfried Danneels, © Paul Van Welden, CC BY-SA, #newsKwzehkjcud
"To thank him for votes [in the 2013 conclave]" - the cardinal said according to Thompson (Twitter, August 20).
But Danneels' invitation by Francis to the synod caused a public scandal.
Danneels retired in January 2010. In April of the same year he told the nephew of then Brugge Bishop Robert Vangheluwe, a liberal, to remain silent about homosexual abuses he suffered from his uncle.
Danneels was a member of the so called St Gallen mafia, a group of cardinals and bishops that started in 1996 a secret plot (“no notes”, “discretion required”) to elect a liberal pope - preferably Jorge Bergoglio.
Picture: Godfried Danneels, © Paul Van Welden, CC BY-SA, #newsKwzehkjcud