Why would people who are in their own words irreconcilably angry at some organization lie about it?
Why, that’s the biggest mystery in the world.
Maybe I’ve not kept up, but I don’t think any other pope in recent years has attempted personal pastoral counseling with the laity. The problem comes with trying to assert dual roles of personal pastoral counseling and official spokesman of the entire Roman church. I think these practical results show that the roles are not compatible! It invites liars to not just break the confidence of a pastor, but to smear the entire organization. Of course Crazy Evangelicals question the need for a Pope in the first place.
The bigger question is why has the Vatican not denied these recent pastoral counsels, if indeed, they did not occur?
The bigger question is why has the Vatican not denied these recent pastoral counsels, if indeed, they did not occur?