Has Francis Found a New Smurf for the CDF?
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Wilmer is a Sacred Heart Father and former Superior General of his order who was appointed a bishop in April 2018.
In December 2018 he called the German “theologian” Eugen Drewermann, 82, who left the priesthood and the Church “a prophet of our time misrecognised by the Church" and said that "abuse of power is in the DNA of the [Vatican II] Church."
In the Covid context, he called the concept of a punishing God in March 2020 “terrible” and even “completely un-Christian” although it is omnipresent in the Bible.
In April 2020 Wilmer criticised Catholics for being “fixated only on the Eucharist” claiming that their reaction on the Covid ban on the liturgy showed that “the Eucharist is indeed overrated.”
In March 2022, he supported the German euthanasia programme.
Picture: Heiner Wilmer © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsGkdgimrhfz
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