Cardinal Ambongo: Radcliffe disavows article critical of African bishops

A Congolese cardinal said his English counterpart had denied published comments on African bishops and 'Fiducia supplicans.'

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo said Tuesday that Fr. Timothy Radcliffe had denied making controversial comments about African bishops featured in Vatican media this month.

But earlier publication records indicate that Radcliffe made the remarks in a lecture, which he subsequently saw published in an English Catholic magazine.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo during …