The Jesuit takeover of the Catholic Church continues as Claire Chretien of Lifesite News advises us:
July 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – “A number of cardinals” asked Pope Francis to fire Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, “because he had on several occasions publicly disagreed with or distanced himself from the pope’s positions,” particularly as related to the exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
This information comes from America, a Jesuit magazine. As a magazine run by the Pope’s own religious order, America has enjoyed special access since Francis’ election in 2013. They published a famous interview with Pope Francis in 2013, and have since grown significantly.
The cardinals seem to have gotten their wish, because on June 30, it was announced that 69-year-old Müller would be removed from his job on July 2, the end of his five-year term as Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
On July 1, Pope Francis named a 73-year-old Jesuit, Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, to head the CDF. Ladaria Ferrer was previously Secretary of the CDF. He is also heading the pope’s commission on women deacons.
Müller spoke to German media about his dismissal.
“It doesn’t bother me,” Müller told Allgemeine Zeitung as translated by Rorate Caeli. “Everyone has to retire at some point.”
Müller confirmed that he disagreed with Pope Francis for firing three priests from the CDF.
“There were competent people,” he said. This comment is consistent with a more vague one that Müller made in a May 2017 interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo.
In May, Müller told Arroyo, “I am in favor of a better treatment of our officials in the Holy See because we cannot only speak about the social doctrine and we must also respect it.”
Müller denied to Allgemeine Zeitung that he and Pope Francis had “differences” and disagreements over the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia. During his time as head of the CDF, Müller maintained that Amoris Laetitia must be interpreted through the lens of previous doctrine and therefore can’t be used to change Church practice and thus undermine its teaching.
Müller said the four dubia cardinals asking Pope Francis for clarity on whether Amoris Laetitia is aligned with Catholic morality raised “legitimate questions.” He also criticized them and maintained that Amoris Laetitia was consistent with the Catholic faith so therefore no “fraternal correction” of Pope Francis would be necessary.
Nevertheless, he has been a voice for Catholic orthodoxy as bishops’ conferences and high-ranking Vatican cardinals have called for the divorced and “remarried” to be admitted to Holy Communion contrary to Catholic teaching on adultery, the sacraments, scandal, and sacrilege.
The appointment of Ladaria Ferrer is “destined to have far-reaching consequences, not the least of which is to ensure that the C.D.F. and its prefect are rowing with and not against the pope on key issues, including the interpretation of ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ synodality and cooperation with the commission for the protection of minors,” America offered in its analysis.
“Ladaria Ferrer, though a competent theologian, is a low-key appointment who is never going to rock the boat, or cause any embarrassment to the Pope,” observed Father Alexander Lucie-Smith at the UK Catholic Herald. “His appointment means the virtual neutralisation for the foreseeable future of the CDF as a possible hotbed of opposition” to the pope’s agenda.
Go here to read the rest. Pope Clement XIV, where are you when we really need you?
What a potential mess!
When God straightens the ship, it’ll be: 1- in the nick of time and 2- everyone will Know Who Straightened the Ship.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller is a good man
My understanding is that Ladaria Ferrer is a Universalist, a person who believes that all humankind will eventually be saved. This point of view fits right in with Pope Francis thinking and should sell very well. It also suggests it is pointless to be a Catholic.
All mankind is saved except when they reject salvation by not cooperating with the Holy Spirit.
To Michael Dowd: I have read some of Ladaria’s books and I see nothing to make one think that he is a universalist, meaning that he is taken in by Origen’s famous error called “apokatasisis”, found in Origen’s “De Principiis” or Peri Arché, meaning universal restoration, or the idea that eventually even the devils will be saved. Hans Uurs von Balthasar has a touch of that in a book called “Dare we hope?”. He holds that thereis a scriptural basis that allows us to hope that all will be saved. It is one thing to hope that that is the case, but another thing to teach it as a fact. It may be that Pope Francis holds some form or it as he states in AL that to condemn anyone to eternal damnation ” is not the logic of the gospel”: “No one can be condemned for ever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel! Here I am not speaking only of the divorced and remarried, but of everyone, in whatever situation they find themselves.”. (AL 297). This is a very strange statement and it in fact contradicts not a few gospel passages, such as what Jesus says in Mt 6,31-46, on the final judgment. Is he proposing universalism and that on the basis of his extreme emphasis on mercy, and much less on repentance? It’s hard to know.