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High-ranking Vatican clerics are against Francis’ most recent decision regarding marriage annulments. They are accusing him of giving up an important dogma.
by Julius Müller-Meiningen
They’ve had enough. In three weeks’ time, the Catholic bishops of the world will meet in synod to deliberate about the future course of their church. In Rome, the clergy will encounter an apparatus that is dead set against the Pope, definitively. A dossier is being circulated in the halls of the curia, which has been made available to The Christian and the World of DIE ZEIT [weekly journal included in ZEIT], which systematically lists the alleged sins of Francis.
“Francis has taken off his mask”, a high-ranking Vatican cleric says.
The trigger for what one can confidently call the preparations for an organized resistance against Francis, was the most recent decree of the 78-year-old Argentinian. With the document he published last Tuesday [Sep. 8], which enables simpler and faster annulments …More