Cardinals on Consistory: "Everything Was Very Controlled"
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Jerusalem: “Reform is not a Church language. In the Church there are no reforms. We must reflect on our mission and vocation according to the times, but faithful to the roots and to the mission of the Church.”
Cardinal Frank Leo, Toronto: “I don’t think the College of Cardinals is divided at all.”
Anders Arborelius, Stockholm, on liturgy: “I hope we can find a compromise.”
Another Cardinal: “Some of Pope Francis’ friends spoke about a new Church and absolute change.”
Conservative cardinal, anonymous: “This whole synodal style doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t understand the intelligent men who write on and on about it.”
Progressive cardinal, anonymous: “Sitting around tables rather than facing leaders at the front is a brilliant sign of collegiality.”
One conservative cardinal suggested about consistories to “do it by Zoom or something to save money”.
Conservative cardinal, anonymous: “Everything was very controlled. One cardinal even called it ‘high school.’”
Another conservative Cardinal: “There was time for the free interventions, but they were very, very short. I think the so-called free interventions were not free and were in fact enforced interventions.”
European former curial cardinal, anonymous: “We spoke for three hours, no? But in the end, nobody took our opinion.”
African Cardinal on the idea of the synod: “It could become a pressure group of laypeople, priests, maybe even bishops and cardinals.”
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