Pope Francis Forcibly Exiles Powerful Conservative Cardinal for Refusing to Obey

Pope Francis pushed out Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the top doctrinal watchdog in the Roman Catholic Church from the Vatican on Saturday. He replaced him was a deputy closely aligned with Pope Francis’s own personal ideologies to lead the influential congregation dealing with sex-abuse cases and ensuring Catholic orthodoxy maintains in alignment with the scriptures.

Pope Francis thinks he is God. Just earlier this year he gave priests in Nigeria 30 days to profess complete obedience to him above the words of God or excommunicated from the church. He also ordered Cardinal Müller to fire three priests from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Müller did not get on bended knee and do exactly what was ordered without first taking the time to reflect.

Cardinal Müller, an ideological conservative often at odds with the pontiff, was vexed by the order, and, in a recent interview, said he had made a case, in vain, for the priests to stay in Rome.

“I’m not able to understand all,” Cardinal Müller said when asked why Francis sent them away. He added, “He’s the pope.”

In a rarefied political atmosphere where personnel is policy, the replacement of Cardinal Müller, 69, who was appointed by Francis’ conservative predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, amounts to one of the pope’s most consequential appointments.

Rev. James Martin, editor at large for the Catholic publication America and consulted for the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication shares a disturbing observation that’s bound to alarm conservative Catholics around the world.

“This gives the pope the chance to finally place his own man in a very important spot”

“For many admirers of Benedict, Cardinal Müller was the last link to Benedict’s way of doing things.”

It is strongly being implied that it will only be a matter of time till all Pope Benedict XVI appointees are forcibly removed and replaced with globalist papacy puppets. What is then to become of the church? How can we then work to safeguard against these atrocities being committed in the name of our Heavenly Father?

Because unlike what Pope Francis says, Jesus DID NOT fail on the cross.

UPDATE 6/15/2019:

Cardinal Müller has written a four-page “manifesto of faith” as a reminder to Catholics of the church’s basic tenets of amid what he says is “growing confusion” in the Church today.

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller didn’t name Pope Francis in his four-page manifesto, released late Friday. But the document was nevertheless a clear manifestation of conservative criticism of Francis’s emphasis on mercy and accompaniment versus a focus on repeating Catholic morals and doctrine during the previous two papacies.

Mueller wrote that a pastor’s failure to teach Catholic truths was the greatest deception – “It is the fraud of the anti-Christ.”

After critics of the manifesto accused Müller of being “anti-Pope” the Cardinal hit back, describing critics as “political strategists and theological ignoramuses”.

“When it comes to the sexual crimes of some priests,” he continued, “they hold priestly celibacy or the sacramentality of the episcopal and priestly offices to be responsible, instead of looking to the collapse of the priestly ethos and sexual morality during the 1980s, for which these critics’ intellectual predecessors were to blame.”

Regarding Church reform, the cardinal said that true reform means “spiritual and moral renewal in Christ, and not the dechristianization of the Church or her transformation into an NGO, where global warming is more important than the awareness that God is the source and goal of man and of the whole creation.”

He also said warned against misusing the word “clericalism” when trying to find the causes of the abuse crisis, saying the term was being used as a “battle cry against the office instituted by God”.

“What the term ‘clericalism’ is about is the abuse of authority in order to gain personal advantages by abetting friends, who get moved into positions in the Church despite their incompetence and unworthiness.

“[However,] the motive for sexual abuse of minors and ecclesiastical inferiors is not the thirst for power over others, but unmastered sexual desire, which leads to the sin of lust and dehumanizes the victims.”

The best remedy for the crisis, he said, was not in talk of changing structures but in simply following traditional teaching.

Source: Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , CruxNow, Catholic Herald