Papal frontrunner distances himself from conservative movement

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Cardinal Angelo Scola, widely considered a leading candidate to be the next pope, has distanced himself from sharp criticism of his two predecessors in Milan leveled by the head of Communion and Liberation, a Catholic movement born in Italy and seen as a bulwark of conservative Catholic opinion.

Scola’s criticism is considered especially significant, given that his own background as a young Italian priest was in the Communion and Liberation movement. Continue reading

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