In February last Mary McAleese wrote directly to Pope Francis on my behalf, suggesting that I had not been treated fairly, and requesting that I be restored to ministry.
Two weeks ago she got the following reply from the Sostituto in the Secretariat of State, Arch. Becciu saying:
“The Holy Father has received your letter and he has asked me to reply in his name. He appreciates the concerns which prompted you to write to him.
I believe that next October’s second session of the Synod on the Family will go a good way towards defining Francis’ papacy, either as a time of real reform in the Church, or alternatively a major disappointment for those of us who think that reform is necessary, indeed essential. But it will not be easy to bring any coherent, meaningful changes out of the Synod. There are two areas in particular that will be central to the success or failure of the event.
