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PopeWatch: Muller

 

Hattip to commenter Greg Mockeridge.  Cardinal Muller is not going quietly into retirement:

 

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has sharply criticized Pope Francis for the “unacceptable” way in which the pontiff recently dismissed him as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF).

“On the very last day of my mandate as CDF prefect, the pope informed me within one minute of his decision not to prolong me. He did not give a reason – just as he gave no reason for dismissing three highly competent members of the CDF a few months earlier,” the 69-year-old cardinal told the Bavarian daily Passauer Neue Presse.

“I cannot accept this way of doing things. As a bishop, one cannot treat people in this way,” he said in the interview, which was published on July 6th.

“I have said this before – the Church’s social teaching must also be applied to the way employees are treated here in the Vatican,” he added.

Pope Francis told Cardinal Müller in a private meeting at the Vatican on June 30th that his mandate as doctrinal chief would not be renewed. The five-year term officially came to an end on July 2nd.

Müller told the Passauer Neue Presse that the recently deceased Cardinal Joachim Meisner, one of the four cardinals to publicly challenge the pope on issues concerning marriage and divorce, was “particularly upset” to hear of Francis’ decision.

The former CDF prefect said he spoke to the 83-year-old Meisner about his dismissal in a long telephone conversation on the evening of July 4th.

“It moved and hurt him personally. He thought it would harm the Church,” said Müller.

“That naturally speaks for me – but it’s a fact – that was the way he expressed it,” he added

The two cardinals spoke at 8:30 pm and Meisner died unexpectedly in his sleep later that night. Müller learned of the death early next morning from the parish priest in the town Bad Füssing, the Bavarian thermal spa resort where Meisner was on holiday.

Cardinal Müller said during their phone call Meisner had expressed deep concern over the current situation of the Church, particularly “about the quarreling, disputes and discussions which were standing in the way of church unity and the truth”.

Go here to read the rest.  It is striking just how little personal loyalty this Pope inspires.  The tell all books about this papacy should be quite savage/

 

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Phillip
Phillip
Monday, July 10, AD 2017 6:16am

Another insight into Francis “the Humble” from Muller;

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/07/for-record-francis-first-always.html

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Monday, July 10, AD 2017 9:57am

Pope Leo X hated making appointments, remarking that, whenever he did so, he created nine malcontents and one ingrate. Doubtless, the same holds true of dismissals.

TomD
TomD
Monday, July 10, AD 2017 10:46am

“I have said this before – the Church’s social teaching must also be applied to the way employees are treated here in the Vatican”
Pope Francis has had several Masses for the janitorial and gardening staff at the Vatican, so it is clear he understands this. The problem with him, and with many in the Church, is that we don’t extend such charity to those we disagree with.

On another note, how did we miss this EOTT gem: http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2017/02/16/burke-named-head-of-vaticans-congregation-of-janitorial-services/

Don L
Don L
Monday, July 10, AD 2017 1:57pm

Sigh!

Micha Elyi
Micha Elyi
Monday, July 10, AD 2017 4:13pm

There are no pleasant ways to sack someone or to be sacked.
There are many ways that are unnecessarily bad, even cruel.
Even petty cruelty is unChristian.

The Lord said His yoke is light yet He also called it a cross which is an instrument of torture.
Living a Christian life is not easy.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Tuesday, July 11, AD 2017 2:33am

Where is our great ‘mercy” Pope when it comes to dealing with his own employees? Pope Francis the Fraud.

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