On the eve of the opening of the Vatican’s major synod Tuesday, five conservative cardinals have published a set of questions called ‘dubia’ which they claimed Pope Francis did not answer.
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When he retired, the ultra-conservative Pope Benedict XVI was expected to disappear from view, clearing the way for his liberal successor, Francis, to clean house in the notoriously corrupt Vatican. Instead, he stayed, setting the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church in two