ROME - Pope Francis's representative to the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, who is made a cardinal today, Saturday, has said that American conservative papal critics “are very, very noisy, they are a network of blogs, and they all talk together, but in reality, they represent just a small group.”
"Who are they?" he asked.
Pierre, 77, is a French prelate who since April 2016 has served as apostolic nuncio to the US, serving as a papal representative in the wake of the contentious 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family, and through what are now two tumultuous election cycles. He will receive his red hat and then stay in Rome to participate in the controversial Synod on Synodality.
