'New Vatileaks' says cardinal

(ANSA) - Rome, October 13 - Conservative cardinals indicated as signatories of a letter to Pope Francis leaked to the press on Monday expressing concerns about the synod on the family distanced themselves from its publication Tuesday, saying those responsible had intended to create divisions among participants.
    "I am not saying if I signed it or not," Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said in an interview with newspaper Corriere della Sera. "The scandal is that a private letter to the pope has been published. It is a new Vatileaks," Cardinal Mueller continued.
    Instead Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney and another of the alleged signatories, told La Repubblica newspaper the contents of the letter published on Monday did not "correspond" to the original.
    Their comments came after the cardinals Angelo Scola, André Vingt-Trois and Peter Erdo on Monday denied having signed the letter and Vatican spokesman Farther Federico Lombardi urged journalists to make the necessary checks. The confusion comes as bishops are meeting at the Vatican to explore how the Church should respond to the needs of the modern family, with differences in opinion on how to confront issues such as same-sex and co-habiting couples and reception of the Eucharist for divorced Catholics who are remarried. In the letter the alleged signatories expressed concerns about the procedures for discussion and the way the final position paper would be drawn up. http://popefrancisnewsapp.com/