Vatican faces backlash after denying ‘nihil obstat’ to dean
Rome is said to have objected to Fr. Martin Lintner’s ‘publications on questions of Catholic sexual morality.’
The Vatican is facing backlash after it vetoed the appointment of a prominent German-speaking moral theologian as dean of an academic institution in northern Italy.
A June 26 statement posted on the website of the Philosophical-Theological College of Brixen/Bressanone (PTH Bri…