Blue Thursday: The orthodox counter-offensive at the Synod
Blue Thursday: The orthodox counter-offensive at the Synod
- "such a day had never happened before, not even at Vatican II"
We are calling it "Blue Thursday" for the color of Our Lady -- and also the main color of the flag of Australia, the nation of Cardinal Pell, the first to rise up against the Baldisseri authoritarian manipulation.
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The counter-offensive of the orthodox
Agitation in the Hall. The commissions dismantle Forte's text
by Matteo Matzuzzi
Il Foglio
October 17, 2014
Rome. They say that a confrontation like this had never been seen before, perhaps not even at the Council.
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. A reverse course from what had always happened in the past and affirmed in the previous days. In other words, only the Relatio post disceptationem, signed by Cardinal Erdo and written by Abp. Bruno Forte, would have been fed to the press. Against the novelty presented by Baldisseri, rose up Cardinal George Pell, who strongly contested the decision. After him, a long line of Fathers, from the Archbishop of Brussels, Abp. Léonard, to that of Durban, Cardinal Napier, asked for the matter to be at least put to a vote. Even the Secretary of State took the floor. And all in the atmosphere of a stadium, with standing ovation and even some booing. The Pope, seated at the presidency table, looked on, impassive. 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.
remainder here rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/…/blue-thursday-o…
