Chris Ferrara Defends His Critique of Synod Against Mark Shea

The Remnant: Cardinal Mueller on Secret Synod’s Relatio:  “Undignified, shameful, completely wrong.”

Cardinal Burke on the Relatio: “Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable. The document lacks a solid foundation in the Sacred Scriptures and the Magisterium. In a matter on which the Church has a very rich and clear teaching, it gives the impression of inventing a totally new, what one Synod Father called ‘revolutionary’, teaching on marriage and the family. It invokes repeatedly and in a confused manner principles which are not defined, for example, the law of graduality. Read more here.