I think we are in uncharted waters with the Barque of Peter having a reigning pope and an emeritus pope with the emeritus pope's head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith acting as a sort of spokes person for the emeritus pope and also a parallel watchdog for the Doctrine of the Faith.
While I tend to agree more with the emeritus pope and his former head of the CDF, we only have one pope and one CDF.
I think in times past, a pope might censure or silence someone who might be sowing division in the Church?
Should this happen to Cardinal Mueller? Is he the new Archbishop Lefebrev?
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Everything Müller has said since Francis was elected has been in support of the Pope. His disagreement is with some of the German bishops. PF cannot silence anyone apart from himself (which would be a blessing in the unlikely event it might occur).
Of all the people who need to imitate the words of St Joseph the Betrothed in Scripture, Cardinal Muller isn't one of them.
There are worse things than division.
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