13 March 2014, The Tablet

‘Publish and be delighted’

by Tom Burns

 
The Church has been re-energised by Pope Francis. That is why, says Bishop Tom Burns, he and his confrères of England and Wales must be open with the results of the questionnaire on family life Since the moment Jorge Bergoglio greeted the world as Pope Francis, the sound of windows and doors being thrown open in the Vatican has been deafening – 50 years after the Second Vatican Council. Yet the recent questionnaire on marriage and family life, prepared in advance of the synod on that subject this October, was constructed in such an obfuscating manner that it could have been a deliberate ruse to deter responses and halt the spring clean those open windows denote. The subsequent prohibition on publishing the results appeared to be a further attempt at suppression, apparently b
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