The vanguard
10/25/2020 7:45 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 10/25/2020 7:45 PM
The conservative wing of the Church is back in charge
.
Several exponents of this current have raised their voices against Pope Francis after he said that he is in favor of civil unions between homosexuals so that they have legal coverage.
"They are children of God, they have the right to a family," said Francisco in a new documentary, in his clearest words in this papacy in favor of gay unions.
Perhaps the most relevant opinion is that of the German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Benedict XVI and who remained in that important position until 2017. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Müller assures that
the Pope "is not above the word of God
, who created man and woman, marriage and the family."
“I am a cardinal and I will always be on the side of the Pope, but not under all conditions.
It is not absolute loyalty,
the first loyalty is to the word of God ”, he continues.
The cardinal criticizes that in many countries civil unions are the premise of homosexual marriage, and says that the faithful are "upset" because the Pope's words would be "the first step towards a justification of homosexual unions, by the Church, and this is not possible ”.
The letter
It is not the first time that Müller has attacked the views of the Pontiff.
The German theologian began the year by saying, without quoting, that the "poison that paralyzes the Church is the opinion that we must adapt to the spirit of the age."
Another old acquaintance of the anti-Pope ranks is the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the four cardinals to sign the famous letter of the dubia (doubts), which protested that the Pope
proposed that the divorced and remarried could return to communion
in some cases.
He also captained a 2018 summit of ultra-Catholic cardinals to encourage disobeying the Pope as a "heretic."
On this occasion, he did not want to stop putting an edge on the matter and said in a statement that
"the private opinions attributed to Francis
do not correspond to the constant teaching of the Church."
In his opinion, the right to form a family "is not a private right to claim but must correspond to the plan of the creator who made the human being in two sexes," he continues, citing Genesis.
Several US bishops have also voiced their rejection.
Pope Francis with Gerhard Ludwig Müller in 2013. AFP Photo
In this range of criticisms could not miss that of the former nuncio in Washington Carlo Maria Viganò, known for creating a great controversy by accusing the Pope, in 2018, of covering up the sexual abuse of an American cardinal.
Viganò now openly denounces that
Francis seeks to create a schism in the Church
with “a crescendo of heretical statements, to force the healthy part of the Church –episcopate, clergy and faithful– to accuse him of heresy, and later declare it schismatic and enemy of the Pope ”, assures Viganò.
While the criticisms arrive, the Vatican has not yet ruled on the position of the Pope in the documentary on civil unions, nor on the increasingly evident fact that his statements were extracted from an interview with the Mexican channel Televisa in 2019 that it was never published in its entirety, and to which the film's director would have had access.
The great question that now hovers over Saint Peter
is why the Pope's opinion was not published then
, why it was now and, above all, if the Vatican could have censored the words of the Pontiff that have caused so much media stir.
Anna Buj. The vanguard
PB
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