Following pledges from the assembled prelates to complete transparency, a journalist challenged these promises, suggesting that Pope Francis himself had recently covered up for a bishop friend who was found to have had gay porn on his phone involving young people.
‘One cannot live one’s whole life accusing, accusing, accusing the Church,’ he said. ‘Whose office is it to accuse? Who is the one the Bible calls the Great Accuser? The devil!’
'If this Synod limits itself to discussing only the problem of the abuse of minors, saying nothing about the plague of homosexuality which infests the Church, this Synod will betray its mission.'