A group of Catholics are planning to hold a conference in Rome next month in response to concerns they have about the direction of the Church under Pope Francis.
Known as the “Friends of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra,” named after a recently deceased cardinal who was opposed to the Catholic Church’s new direction under Francis, the group will hold a conference on April 7 titled “The Catholic Church: Where Are You Heading?”
“It’s subtitle, ‘Only a blind man can deny that there is great confusion in the Church,’ is taken from comments Cardinal Caffarra made in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Foglio in January 2017,” reported the National Catholic Register on Tuesday.
“The former archbishop of Bologna, one of the signatories of the dubia — five questions sent to Pope Francis in 2016 aimed at helping to resolve the prevailing confusion, died in September.”
The conference stems from concerns mentioned by many within the Catholic Church over some of the statements within Pope Francis’ exhortation Amoris Laetitia, or “Joy of Love.”
In the exhortation, the pontiff seemed to loosen the standards for divorced and remarried couples within the Catholic Church.
“It is important that the divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church,” noted page 184 of the exhortation.
“The Christian community’s care of such persons is not to be considered a weakening of its faith and testimony to the indissolubility of marriage; rather, such care is a particular expression of its charity.”
In 2017, months before his death, Cardinal Caffarra sent a letter to Francis on behalf of himself and three other cardinals expressing concern over the exhortation’s text.
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Source: Christian Post
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