Nothing to see here… everything’s awesome… move along…

WUWTS really isn’t about keeping up the with the news developments. Seriously, there aren’t enough hours in the day, and I’m not being paid.

But I think Sandro Magister has everything about this that’s worth noting in a single headline and sub-head:

Thirteen Cardinals Have Written to the Pope. Here’s the Letter

But Francis has rejected their requests en bloc. And meanwhile, the “Relatio finalis” has disappeared from the program of the synod

Badda-BOOM!

Moving on…

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1. Carlo Caffarra, archbishop of Bologna, Italy, theologian, formerly the first president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family;
2. Thomas C. Collins, archbishop of Toronto, Canada;
3. Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, United States;
4. Willem J. Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht, Holland;
5. Péter Erdõ, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe and relator general of the synod underway, as also at the previous session of October 2014;
6. Gerhard L. Müller, former bishop of Regensburg, Germany, since 2012 prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith;
7. Wilfrid Fox Napier, archbishop of Durban, South Africa, president delegate of the synod underway as also at the previous session of the synod of October 2014;
8. George Pell, archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia, since 2014 prefect in the Vatican of the secretariat for the economy;
9. Mauro Piacenza, Genoa, Italy, former prefect of the congregation for the clergy, since 2013 penitentiary major;
10. Robert Sarah, former archbishop of Conakry, Guinea, since 2014 prefect of the congregation for divine worship and the discipline – Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Italy;
11. Jorge L. Urosa Savino, archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela;
12. André Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, France, president delegate of the synod underway as also at the previous session of the synod of October 2014.

Are these the names that history will remember as the “last Catholic cardinals”?

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