Cardinal Schönborn spins

From those close to Cardinal Archbishop Christoph Schönborn, new.at learned yesterday that, an "official acknowledgment of the Pope is absolutely not necessary," and also the latest rumours current during the week which also reached the archbishop's palace in Vienna that the Vatican could in any case consecrate Dr. Wagner in Rome rather in Linz they take to be sheer nonsense, because this would be a total snub for the local episcopate and many Catholics, not just in the Diocese of Linz .

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