https://freerepublic.com/tag/13cardinals/ en-us Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:53:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3385866/posts While the Synod of Bishops on the Family was being conducted in Rome last October, the revelation of a letter expressing the concerns of 13 cardinals over the proceedings marked a turning point in the event. As I reported at the time, it was on 8 October, 2015, that a close friend of the pope himself - the La Stampa journalist Andrea Tornielli - first publicly mentioned the existence of the 13 Cardinals Letter, which had been given to Pope Francis three days earlier by George Cardinal Pell. The cardinals' main concern was that the Synod was being manipulated in... One Peter Five https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3385866/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:53:34 GMT