Francis is surrounded by "refined flatterers" and "ideologically contaminated" advisers, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told catholicnewsagency.com (19 April) - as if these people had not been chosen by Francis himself.
Francis' advisers want to rebuild the Church according to the "pleasure of men" (Gal 1:10), Müller analyses. He explains that until recently, they were "bitter enemies" of Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but with Francis they "made a 180-degree turn" and advocate now "a papal absolutism."
They turn Francis' private opinions on climate change, private property, mass immigration and Corona vaccination into dogmas and downgrade the real dogmas to "private opinions of pastorally insensitive guardians of the faith".
As an example, Müller cites the panegyrics that bishops sang about late Hans Küng: "The fact that he denied the divinity of Jesus Christ lets them cold."
Müller explains that a "resurgent German megalomania" inspires some German bishops, theologians and lay …More