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Pope Orders Cardinal Müller to Dismiss Three CDF Priests
Marco Tosatti, the well-informed and well-respected Italian Vatican specialist, has just revealed another quite troubling development in Rome. On 26 December, Tosatti reports on his own website Stilum Curiae that Pope Francis had just ordered the Prefect of one Vatican dicastery to dismiss three of his priests from their duties in their congregation.
My own research has shown that this incident occurred at the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), and that it was
Cardinal Gerhard Müller himself who now has to obey these peremptory new
orders. Additionally, I was able to discover that the three priests
involved are, respectively, of a Slovakian-American, French, and Mexican
nationality. (One of my sources is a friend of one of these three
theologians.) However, the last of these three might now, after all, be
able to remain a little longer in his current position at the
Congregation.
Let us now consider some of the specific details of what Marco
Tosatti himself has perceptively gathered for us. He starts his article
with a reference to Pope Francis’ usual rebuke of the Roman Curia at his
Christmas address to the Curia and detects the pope’s obvious anger in
his words and gestures. When looking over to the Curia itself, however,
Tosatti perceives something else than a reciprocal anger to be present
among the curial members: “It is not about their resistance, but about
their fear, their discontent, and a kind of feeling that belongs to
another context altogether.”
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