text: "That the four cardinals had written to the pope and expressed their worries was "in order and legitimate," Pinto said, but the fact that when they had not received an answer, they published their letter some weeks later was a "slap in the face.""
  
  Just to be clear, Msgr Pinto called them disloyal for publishing the dubia, not for asking them. The Pope was chosen to be the public face of the Catholic Church, and it is those who present themselves as "more Catholic than the Pope" who are disloyal to the perennial magisterium of the Church. 
  
  A retreat into silence, to study and pray over the Church's teaching, is a usual prescription for such disloyalty. It might serve the Church well if these cardinals adopted that posture voluntarily. They may discover how harmoniously AL fits into the Church's teaching.