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Cardinal Schönborn: Vatican ‘No’ to Same-Sex Blessings Marked by ‘Communication Error’

Cardinal Christoph Schomborn, archbishop of Vienna and the president of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, at a press conference on Pope Francis' post-synodal apostolic exhortation "Amoris Laetitia" (the Joy of Love) at the Holy See Press Office in Vatican City on April 8, 2016.

Daniel Ibanez
Cardinal Christoph Schomborn, archbishop of Vienna and the president of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, at a press conference on Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (the Joy of Love) at the Holy See Press Office in Vatican City on April 8, 2016.

Cardinal Schönborn, who noted that he has served as a CDF member for 25 years, said he regretted that the committee to which he belongs was not consulted over such a “sensitive question.”