Link: 'Archbishop Chaput's Remarkable Challenge to Pope Francis'

Archbishop Chaput

Archbishop Charles Chaput aligned himself with Cardinal Raymond Burke on Monday night as a severe critic of the Synod on the Family. According to this news reports from David Gibson at RNS, +Chaput was asked about the synod at a First Things symposium, and replied: “I was very disturbed by what happened” at the synod. “I think confusion is of the devil, and I think the public image that came across was one of confusion.” This will be the line of attack from the Tutiorists of our day, those who believe the only means of evangelization entails a rigoristic moralism, to the synod: It created confusion. Is that claim true? Was confusion the result of the synod?

Confusion may come from the devil, but the synod came from Pope Francis. And, I would note two recent comments from those who actually attended the synod did not strike this note of confusion being spread abroad by the discussions of the synod fathers.

To read more of Michael Sean Winter's NCR blog see: http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/archbishop-chaputs-remarkable-challenge-pope-francis#.VEfSnstwTW0.