Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has denied that a sermon he preached on Sunday was an attempt to send a message to the new Pope Benedict XVI about the future of the Catholic church.
The statement from the Archbishop of Westminster's press office comes after a story in today's Financial Times (FT) which suggests that the Archbishop's sermon, which was broadcast on Radio 4, "strongly, if implicitly, opposed the direction the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI has indicated the Church should take".
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In its article, the FT suggested that the choice of "Gaudium et Spes" was intended to put a distance between the Cardinal and Rome, because of Pope Benedict's supposed opposition to the Second Vatican Council.
But a statement from the Cardinal's press office has pointed out that Cardinal Ratzinger was a 'peritus theological expert' at the Council and was heavily involved in the drafting of "Gaudium et Spes".
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Read the complete article Archbishop's 'message' to the Vatican denied from ekklesia.
The article goes on and contrasts Murphy-O'Connor's comments with Benedict XVI's positions.
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