CARDINAL MÜLLER ACCUSES POPE OF "BRUTAL INTOLERANCE" AND "AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP"

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The recent rescriptum approved by Francis and the Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Roche, continues to elicit reactions.

The new document, which reinforces the Motu Proprio, Traditinis custodes, establishes that the use of a parish church or the erection of a personal parish for the celebration of the Eucharist according to the Missale Romanum of 1962 and the granting of licence to priests ordained after the publication of the Motu proprio Traditionis custodes to celebrate according to the Missale Romanum of 1962, will be the responsibility of Rome.

This media already published this week how this decision further strengthens Rome's centralist control to the detriment of the bishops' freedom of decision and action.

InfoVaticana has contacted Cardinal Müller to get his opinion on this decision of the Pope and Cardinal Roche. The ex-prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith replied that "Pope Benedict XVI gave the papacy a great reputation, even among agnostics far removed from the Church (Paolo Flores D'Arcais, Jürgen Habermas and Piergiorgio Odifreddi) through his high theological competence and intellectual honesty".

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