In a series of subsequent Twitter exchanges, Napier clarified that he was not criticizing Pope Francis.
“I said: political correctness is THE major heresy! I didn't in any way define what is PC or not!” he wrote.
He wrote that Pope Francis’s call for an apology referred also to others “who are marginalised, and who should be included in the Church's apology for not intervening on their behalf.”
Card. Napier sent the first tweet at the weekend before he'd heard that Francis had said essentially the same thing as Marx. Hence the "what I really meant" clarification above. That's a shame. Nonsense is nonsense, no matter who utters it.
I guess he's not quite ready yet for open confrontation with Francis.
That is a shame. It seems no Church hierarchs are willing to acknowledge the emperor is wearing no clothes.
But it is understandable, as we’ve seen how Francis has treated and silenced his orthodox “enemies”.