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| Subject: As Malichi Martin Warned, Shakeup At Vatican Continues..... Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:22 am | |
| As Malichi Martin Warned, Shakeup At Vatican Continues As Petrus Romanus Replaces Conservative Doctrinal Chief With Jesuit CompatriotJuly 4, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor In a major shake-up of the Vatican’s administration on Saturday, Pope Francis replaced Catholicism’s top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff’s vision of a more inclusive Church. A brief Vatican statement said Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller’s five-year mandate as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department charged with defending Catholic doctrine, would not be renewed. The position is the most important one that a pope fills in the Vatican hierarchy after the Secretary of State. Most incumbents keep it until they retire, which in Mueller’s case would have been in six years. Mueller, 69, who was appointed by former Pope Benedict in 2012, will be succeeded by the department’s number two, Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer.(READ MORE) |
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