Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent
October 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Opus Dei leader has denounced the signatories of a recently-published “filial correction” of Pope Francis regarding “heresies” propagated by the pontiff.
The order’s Vicar General, its second-ranked prelate, accused the more than two hundred scholars and clergy who have signed the Correction of “attack[ing] the pope” and airing the Church’s dirty laundry in public.
“Lamentably this isn’t the first time in the history of the Church in recent years in which there are groups of people that attack the pope, some of whom, I imagine, with good intention,” Monsenor Mariano Fazio told the Argentinean daily La Nacion in an interview published on September 29.
“It seems to me that, on one hand, that it’s an example of the freedom of opinion that exists in the Church and that the pope respects,” added Fazio. “It seems to me on the other hand that it’s a completely erroneous method because, if we’re talking about a filial relationship, a child doesn’t ‘correct’ his father in public.”
“Any member of the faithful, bishop, cardinal, or layman, has the right to tell the Pope what he
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