Cardinal Camillo Ruini answers questions at the Vatican press office on June 17, 2014. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Help us expand our reach! Please share this article
Rome Newsroom, May 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini has said that he is praying there will be no schism in Germany, as priests and bishops in the country announce their disagreement with a document from the Vatican saying the Church cannot bless same-sex unions.
In a May 4 interview with the newspaper Il Foglio, Ruini said: "I hope with all my heart that there will not be any schism, and I pray for this."
The 90-year-old cardinal referenced Pope Francis' 2019 letter in which he asked German Catholics to keep a "connection with the universal Church."