Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2010 / 18:08 pm
In a recent letter, Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) Member Christine de Vollmer asked Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi to issue a formal clarification of his recent comments characterizing a statement written by a group of PAV members as a call for the resignation of the Academy's president, Archbishop Rino Fisichella.
Christine de Vollmer and several other PAV members issued a statement on Feb. 19, which criticized the actions of their leader Archbishop Fisichella and denied his remarks to the press that the group is free of disagreement and disunity.
Although Fr. Lombardi interpreted the Feb. 19 statement in his remarks to reporters as an official request for Fisichella's resignation, de Vollmer insisted that this was not her or the other signatories intent in publishing their comments.
“You have unfortunately misrepresented me and my colleagues by your remarks to the press and in L’Osservatore Romano regarding the Statement we published on February 19, 2010 and I ask you to print a correction for the information of the many interested parties worldwide,” de Vollmer wrote to Fr. Lombardi in a March 7 letter and that was made available to the press on Monday.