Even Liberals Admit: Francis Says One Thing, Does Another

Father Thomas Reese S.J., 73, is "extremely disappointed" by Pope Francis’ Monday instruction telling the U.S. bishops’ conference to delay a vote concerning procedures to sanction clerical abuses.

Writing in the dissenting NcrOnline.org (November 16), Reese called this a "public-relation disaster" for Francis.

According to Reese, this intervention “contradicts everything Francis has said about empowering bishops' conferences and decentralising decision-making in the Church.”

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