[Catholic Caucus] Has Francis Found a New Smurf for the CDF?

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[Catholic Caucus] Has Francis Found a New Smurf for the CDF?

Francis is looking for a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and his candidate is Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer, 61, Germany, writes MessaInLatino.it (December 13).

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.

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The German Crisis, the World Church, and Pope Francis

Even George Weigel seems to turning on the Francis.

Pope Francis bears a heavy burden in seeking a resolution of the German crisis that is true to the reality and binding authority of divine revelation. If such a resolution is not achieved, however, it will raise the gravest doubts about the entire project of “synodality” central to his pontificate.

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Weigel is and has always been a Novus Ordo establishment guy. For the last few years, he’s been spitting at the wind. He flirts with criticism of Bergoglio but never quite crosses the line. It’s always hand-wringing and stuff like “Oh dear, Pope Francis really ought to rein in this situation.” There’s never any acknowledgment that Bergoglio is a primary *catalyst* of the crisis not just its hapless overseer.