The criticism within the College of Cardinals for Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposal that divorced and readmitted Catholics should be allowed Communion was a victory for the forces of conservatism, according to the church historian Alberto Melloni.Those supportive of Pope Francis’ reforms would be helped, Melloni believes, if the Vatican were to publish the bishops’ conferences’ summaries of responses to the questionnaire on the family that will be considered by the synod in October. He points out that this happened during the synod in 1985. But it is understood that Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri (left), secretary general to the Synod of Bishops, does not want to publish the responses because they might be misconstrued by the media. This, interestingly, was the same c