Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Austrian Church official rejects rumour against Cardinal Schönborn

The Catholic news service, Kath.net, reports that a senior Austrian church official has quashed the rumour put out by an Italian website linking Cardinal Schönborn’s meeting with the Holy Father last Friday morning to a faxed letter he later sent on the same day to the bishop of Mostar, Ratko Peric, that referred to his recent visit to Medjugorje.

The Church spokesperson rejected the rumour as baseless and also pointed out that the Mostar bishop did not consult with the cardinal before publishing [part of] his fax on the Mostar Diocese official website.

The Kath.net report also states that the cardinal’s meeting with the Holy Father had been fixed for some time and that only two people were at the meeting, the cardinal and the Pope. No one else was present.

It adds that the Pope has not responded positively or negatively to Medjugorje but has no problem with cardinals and bishops visiting there – and in fact met today with the new Belgian Archbishop of Mechlen-Brussels, André-Mutien Léonard, who has visited Medjugorje several times and is known for his strong support of new spiritual communities and movements within the Church such as the Community of the Beatitudes.
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