The Pillar and Crux both have stories about individual bishops, one an Archbishop and the other a Cardinal being thrown under the bus by this pope. The cardinal viewed as a progressive and the archbishop very close to Pope Benedict and his magnificent papal magisterium:
At the presentation, held in the town of Kirchzarten, Gänswein said, “I’m here now, I’m looking for a job, so to speak,” and jested about contacting an employment agency.
In July the Archdiocese of Freiburg, led by Archbishop Stephan Burger, announced after a meeting between Burger and Gänswein that Gänswein would celebrate Masses in Freiburg’s cathedral beginning in the fall, but he was not given a permanent job.
In an interview with the German newspaper Die Tagespost in January, Gänswein said a 2021 decree by Pope Francis reversing Benedict’s decision to liberalize permission for celebration of the old Latin Mass “hit him pretty hard.”
“I believe it broke Pope Benedict’s heart” to read the decree, Gänswein said, saying, “At a personal level, he encountered a decisive change of course and considered it a mistake, since it jeopardized the attempt at peace that had been made 14 years earlier.”
“Benedict especially thought it was wrong to prohibit the celebration of Mass in the old rite in parish churches, since it’s always dangerous to paint a group of the faithful into a corner, making them feel persecuted and inspiring a feeling that they have to defend their identity against an enemy,” he said.
Excerpts from Gänswein’s new book also included lines in which he said that he had been “shocked and speechless” when Pope Francis told him in 2020 that while he would technically remain Prefect of the Papal Household, he would not come to work anymore starting the next day, and would no longer appear beside Francis in public, with his only job being to serve as caretaker to Benedict XVI.
Second, from The Pillar, poor Cardinal Tagle:
How can you suspend the whole leadership — president, board, representative council, secretary general, and ecclesiastical assistant — to punish the bad management of one person? And with what right?
The dicastery has an accompanying role regarding CI, the same as it has with other organizations that have a canonical status, such as the ICMC [International Catholic Migration Commission]. The right to suspend has been given by Pope Francis at the request of the dicastery. And because it is the pope that takes that decision, it cannot be contested, as Cardinal Czerny wrote to me.
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Hopefully when PF bites the dust, a sensible and sane man will be elected pope to undo the damage caused by this divisive pontificate.
The article about Caritas International was interesting considering that the Pope is from a global southern nation that has frequent bouts of neediness. Since the reason for the changes are secret we may never know what the problems were, but we may be able to deduce them from the actions of the new management.
As far a Ganswein goes, he is collateral damage and could be more helpful leading pilgrimages and processions and speaking to groups of traditionalists.
Gaswein is Catholic, the Pope is not. I’m done pretending like the simpleton here who slobbers over him.
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