He approves of this statement.
Posted on 03/15/2016 6:56:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, March 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - In a recent interview, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), acknowledged that he must sometimes correct Pope Francis on matters of dogma, noting that the pope is not a "professional theologian."
In a March 1 interview with the German newspaper Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, Cardinal Muller was asked about his relationship with the pope and whether he is his strongest opponent. Muller first explains that he had been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. Concerning Benedict, he adds: "With him, I was closely connected due to the fact that we are both academic theologians, we have the same [German] nationality and share the same world-view."
However, with the current pope, the relationship is different. "Pope Francis is not a 'professional theologian', but has been largely formed by his experiences in the field of the pastoral care, which is very different here with us [in the West]." Muller stresses that the current pope has "a highly spiritual and theological power of judgment which follows the spirituality of the founder of his own [Jesuit] order, St. Ignatius of Loyola." In Muller's eyes, it is "absolutely legitimate" that the pope lets his own life experience influence his papacy. And, he adds: "Thanks be to God, I have lived myself in Southern America for a long time, and so I can understand and assess well all of this [the special pastoral approach of the pontiff]."
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Do we know for sure if he’s Catholic?
He doesn’t seem to be much of a real Catholic, either.
“... that the pope is not a “professional theologian.”
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Talk about the blind leading the blind.....
Oops, the Pope, that is.
Pope Francis described the ongoing invasion of Europe by muslim men as a good thing.
Francis is a force for evil.
He is either evil himself. Or he is insane.
FUPF
Say what?!?
I don’t think there is a job description for pope, I don’t think St. Peter was a theologian.
I'm not so sure about that. It is possible Muller was playing dumb, a la Detective Columbo, to convey a message that, put too directly, would not be disseminated.
He approves of this statement.
Does he take a whiz in the woods when he goes for a hike?
I hope Cardinal Mueller doesn’t get Burked... We need people like him in the curia during this papacy.
Really? This may be the first time (in my lifetime) any Pope had to hide behind such an excuse of not knowing. ‘Not a Professional Theologian’? Sad thing is that’s probably the truth.
He knows what is going on.
He is dangerous and evil.
I am still waiting for the vatican city walls to come down and be replaced with bridges.
Walls keep people out. Bridges connect.
Exactly.
Heh. If this is true, many jokes will need rewriting.
I agree, good post.
Freegards
Was this published in “Duh” Magazine?
Pope Che serves evil in such an obvious manner that my child can identify it.
He blatantly does the bidding of the elites in their continuing bid to enslave humanity.
Global Warming? Yeah, that was on the 3rd tablet that Moses dropped, yeah, that’s the ticket.
You hippies can keep your Red Pope.
I want JP2 back!
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