The Capuchin Franciscan priest is former executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs expressed loyalty to the pope but at the same time told the pope that “a chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate.”
In this 2013 file photo, Capuchin Franciscan Father Thomas Weinandy is pictured at the Washington headquarters of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops where he served as chief adviser on doctrinal and canonical affairs. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
