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Former doctrine chief denies false account of papal meeting

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has denied claims that, before informing him that his term as head of the Vatican’s doctrine office would not be renewed, Pope Francis asked him his stance on women’s ordination to the diaconate and priesthood, the repeal of celibacy, the exhortation on the family Amoris Laetitia and the dismissal of three employees.

What will be Pope Francis’s ‘summer surprise’?

On “The Crux of the Matter,” a weekly radio show on the Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129, Crux’s Austen Ivereigh, Charles Collins and John Allen discussed a possible “summer surprise” from Pope Francis – floating a social encyclial a new Marian dogma, and a changing of the guard at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith respectively.

Müller’s defense of ‘Amoris Laeitia’ reads it in Church tradition
- Commentary, Vatican
- Jun 3, 2017
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, says ‘Amoris Laetitia’ only allows divorced and remarried access to the sacraments of Communion and Reconciliation “if they are ready to live as sisters and brothers,” and refrain from sexual relations.
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Deafening silence on Müller confirms key insight on Francis papacy
- Analysis, Vatican
- May 28, 2017
German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently had controversial things to say both about ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ the pope’s document on the family, and on female deacons. The fact few have reacted confirms a key insight about Pope Francis, which is that his network of informal advisers is far more important than organizational charts.
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Jesuit chief rejects charges of ‘heresy’ for views on Gospels
- Vatican
- Apr 10, 2017
Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the Superior General of the worldwide Jesuit order, spoke to an Italian news program on Sunday to reject charges that he was ‘relativizing’ the Gospels or committing doctrinal heresy when he suggested in February that the words of Jesus on marriage in the New Testament have to be ‘contextualized.’
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