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[Catholic Caucus] Pope leads penitential service on eve of Synod with cardinals confessing list of new sinsJoining members of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis presided over a penitence ceremony in the Vatican during which cardinals read out a list of petitions for forgiveness which the pope had written.Pope Francis and leading cardinals of the Roman Curia have led a penitential ceremony on the eve of the Synod on Synodality, asking forgiveness for failings towards creation, towards women, in the area of abuse, for using doctrine as “stones,” for “adorning the altar” instead of feeding the poor, and for not...

[Catholic Caucus] Müller Refutes Francis: "Lack of Synodality and Church Doctrine Are Not Sins"Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented on September 21 on the announced "penitential liturgy" with Francis in the midst of the October ex-synod.He criticizes that new, man-made sins are being invented.Francis' list includes an alleged "sin" of using doctrine as a stumbling block and a "sin against synodality", that is, the lack of listening and communion.For Cardinal Müller, this "catalogue of alleged sins" against the doctrine of the Church, misused as a weapon, or "sins" against synodality ("whatever one may understand by it") reads like a checklist of the...