Posts Tagged ‘Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’

Carlo Caffarra, second of four dubia cardinals, dies

Thursday, September 7th, 2017

Carlo Caffarra is the second of the four so-called dubia cardinals to die. He was 79. Caffarra was an Italian moral theologian. He, along with the Cardinals Raymond Burke, Walter Brandmüller and Joachim Meisner (who died in early July) publicly questioned Pope Francis’s teaching in his encyclical, Amoris Laetitia. The four cardinals’ questions, called “dubia”, Read more

Four dubia cardinals publish text of letter to Pope

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

The four so-called dubia cardinals, who have been asking Pope Francis to clarify the doctrinal consequences of Amoris Laetitia, asked him for an audience in May. Francis has not answered their request or replied to the letter. They released a copy of their letter to the press. The letter was written by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra Read more