FILE – In this March 11, 2013 file photo, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, of the United States, leaves at the end of a meeting at the Vatican. The publisher of a book on traditional Catholic marriage is crying foul, saying Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 someone apparently swiped upwards of 100 copies of the book from the Vatican mailboxes of bishops who attended a controversial meeting on family issues October 2014. The publisher sent the books to attendees to counter progressive proposals by one of Pope Francis’ favorite theologians to let divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion. Francis had asked Cardinal Walter Kasper to get the debate started back in February 2014. At a Vatican meeting, Kasper posed some provocative questions about how the church could apply a more pastoral approach to Catholics who remarry without getting a church annulment, a decree that their first marriage was null. To counter Kasper, the five cardinals asserted in the book that there really is no better solution _ and no grounds to argue for one since Catholic doctrine is clear. Among others, it was penned by the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, and Cardinal Raymond Burke, the recently ousted head of the Vatican high court. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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