Cardinal Nichols Not Happy With 461 Priests Who Signed Open Letter for Family Synod

Carl Olson, Catholic World Report: My hope is that when an exhaustive (and exhausting) history of the Great Inter-Synodal Battle of 2014-15 is written someday, the collective sense of it will be: “What were they thinking?”—the “they” being those who prelates, priests, and others who pushed for changes in Church teaching about the sacrament of matrimony. But, in the present moment, every scuffle, tussle, and uproar is impossible to assess without some degree of tension, frustration, and even anger.

And, on occasion, even cynicism. Read the rest here.