AS a Catholic, I was happy to see Pope Francis resonating so well with various religious groups during his recent 11-day apostolic journey to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.
But some Catholic critics thought he misspoke when he told an interreligious meeting of young people in Singapore that all religions, not just his own Catholic Church, are 'paths of trying to reach God.'He did not say the Catholic Church, founded by Jesus Christ, son of the living God, is just like and no different than any other church.
This was a departure from traditional Catholic teaching, so Cardinals Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Walter Brandmuller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences; Carlo Cafarra, archbishop emeritus of Bologna; and Joachim Meisner, archbishop emeritus of Cologne, raised their dubia to dispel all ambiguity in Amoris Laetitia.
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