ROME
La Croix
“But what’s more, what a spectacle to the world this display from Cardinal Müller is. The abject lack of self-awareness as he digs his own hole deeper is something to witness.”
Michael Kelly, SJ
Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s criticism of Pope Francis’ termination of his tenure as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) is simply astonishing. His complaint is that he had no warning and the termination was a summary dismissal.
I don’t know where the cardinal has been in recent months. But it doesn’t seem to have been in Rome. Or if he was in Rome, he must have kept his winter muffs covering his ears and fogged goggles to (not) see with.
Even from a great distance – I live in Bangkok – it’s been obvious to me that if he didn’t change his tune, he wasn’t long for his job.In recent months, the cardinal’s had three of his clerical employees sent packing from the CDF for their reported resistance to the current pope’s agenda.
Again, and as the world knows, the two lay people who resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors left explicitly because of their frustration with the obstacles and blockages that CDF staff placed before action and reform.
Cardinal Müller denied there was any problem.For him then to invoke nothing short of his entitlement to remain as the reason he’s most upset puts him, at least for me, in a parallel universe.
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