St. Gallen Mafia’s Long Battle to Change Priesthood will have Decisive Moment at Amazon Synod
Forty-four years before he successfully led the crusade to elect Pope Francis, then-Fr. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor—a future member of the St. Gallen mafia—attended a 1969 synod under Pope Paul VI. Listening to all the radical speeches challenging clerical celibacy, he suddenly felt “a rush of blood to the head,” as he recalls in An English Spring. In “execrable Latin,” Murphy-O’Connor made … Read more