NYTIMES: As Cardinals Prepare to Elect a Pope, One Motto Is ‘Unity.’ That’s Divisive.
... That decision only emboldened conservative criticism of Francis as an authoritarian. “That is his style, to divide,” Cardinal Müller said on Thursday in his apartment. “All dictators are dividing.”
As Cardinals Prepare to Elect a Pope, One Motto …
The cardinals need to “look for the unification of the church,” said Cardinal Müller, whom Francis ousted from the church’s top doctrinal position in 2017. It is “necessary to speak about the division of the church today,” he said.
Some progressives within the church worry that the dozens of new cardinals Francis chose around the world will be less versed in Vaticanese and may be taken in by the sweetness of the unity siren.
“It sounds really good,” said Cardinal Michael Czerny of Canada, who was one of Francis’ closest advisers, but “it means reversal.” For those who opposed Francis, many of them appointed by his predecessor, Benedict XVI, unity means …More