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Pope Says He Doesn’t Fear Possible Schism With U.S. Conservatives joseph g cairo, kevin mccaffrey& andrew cuomo
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Pontiff has faced criticism for focusing on social causes while downplaying traditional teachings
Pope Francis addressed journalists during on his flight to Rome on Tuesday.PHOTO: ALESSANDRA TARENTINO/PRESS POOL
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ROME— Pope Francis made his most explicit public acknowledgment of tensions with conservative Catholics in the U.S., saying he hopes the divisions within the church don’t lead to a schism.
A Conservative Party candidate for the Suffolk County Legislature who lost his own party's ballot in last month's primary election has suspended his campaign, even though his name will stay on the Democratic ballot line in November.
Tom Gargiulo was designated as candidate for the 14th District as part of a Democratic-Conservative cross-endorsement deal to take on incumbent GOP Legis. Kevin McCaffrey, who had the minor party line in the past. McCaffrey waged a Conservative write-in campaign, winning the June 25 contest 186-146.
Gargiulo’s decision to suspend his campaign came to light after Rich Schaffer, the Suffolk County Democractic chairman, sent an email to party members last week announcing the cancellation of a $150-a-head Gargiulo fundraiser set for July 11 in Lindenhurst.
Schaffer said Gargiulo re-evaluated his campaign after the primary loss diminished his chances of winning on just the Democratic line.
Gargiulo was upset about the harshness of the political attacks during the primary especially on the issue of abortion, which he opposes because of his Catholic faith.
“It really hurt, and it was hard for me,” said Gargiulo, a retired teacher who is active in church work. He said he plans to send a letter to Conservative voters to make clear his stand.
McCaffrey said he has “no regrets” about his campaign, adding that Gargiulo — by accepting the Democratic ballot line — “had to expect some of the splatter” from the party’s liberal stands on such issues as late-term abortion and voting rights for felons.
“I never really wanted to campaign against Tom,” said McCaffrey, who has known Gargiulo for 30 years. “I’m just glad it came to this happy ending.”
He also said the move lets Democrats redirect resources to other tight races like the 8th District, where Republican aide Anthony Piccirillo also won his write-in bid against incumbent Legis. William Lindsay III (D-Oakdale).
Although he faces only token opposition, McCaffrey said he will keep knocking on doors.
“I may not out wear out another pair of shoes," he said, "but I’ll still be at the doors because that’s where you hear unfiltered what's on the minds of regular people.”
Gargiulo noted he also still has the Independence Party ballot line and he expects friends to vote for him.
Rick Brand has covered Suffolk life, government and politics for 37 years.
The pope has been criticized by conservative Catholics, many of them Americans, for playing down traditional teachings on marriage, sexuality and bioethics while focusing on social causes such as climate change and migration.
“I pray that there will not be schisms, but I am not afraid,” the pope said Tuesday to reporters accompanying him on his flight to Rome after a weeklong trip to Africa.
A schism is the secession of a group of believers, which typically leads to the establishment of a new church. Pope Francis noted that such splits have been a recurring feature in the history of Christianity.
“There is always a schismatic option in the church,” the pope said, but added that the “path of schism is not Christian.”
Pope Francis was responding to a question prompted by a comment he had made last week, on his outbound flight from Rome to Mozambique, when he told a French journalist that it was “an honor that Americans attack me.”
One of pope’s most prominent critics in the hierarchy is U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, a former head of the Vatican’s supreme court, who along with three other cardinals publicly presented the pope with critical questions about his teaching on divorce.
In a departure from traditional doctrine, Pope Francis has encouraged priests to waive the ban on Communion for some divorced Catholics who remarry without an annulment.
Conservative Catholic media in the U.S. have aired frequent criticisms of the pope on various issues, including his conciliatory approach to gay Catholics and his categorical condemnation of the death penalty.
The U.S. also has been the source of the biggest scandal of the current pontificate: the accusation last year by a former Vatican envoy to the U.S. that Pope Francis had ignored a history of sexual misconduct by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and made him an influential adviser.
Mr. McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., has denied wrongdoing. He was convicted of sexual abuse of minors and sexual misconduct with adults by a Vatican court earlier this year and permanently removed from the priesthood—the first cardinal in modern times to receive such a penalty.
The pope and the U.S. bishops also have clashed over how to handle sexual abuse and its coverup by members of the hierarchy. Last November, the Vatican halted the bishops in their plans to establish new rules for reporting and disciplining bishops who transgress. The Vatican later produced its own rules addressing the matter.
“The criticisms aren’t just from Americans, they are a little bit everywhere,” even in the Vatican, the pope said on Tuesday, adding that he welcomes such feedback as long as it is straightforward.
“At least those who criticize have the honesty to say it. I like that. I don’t like it when the criticisms are under the table and they smile and show their teeth and then there is a knife in the back,” he said.
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