IRELAND
Irish Independent
Jennifer McShane
PUBLISHED 14/02/2015
An Irish priest has said that the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) is part of an “anti-Francis faction” opposed to Pope Francis”.
Speaking on Radio One today, Fr Tony Flannery (68) said CDF’s Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller was also the leader of an anti-Francis group or faction against the Pope in the Vatican.
“Müller is the leader of an anti-Francis faction in the Vatican in Rome,” the Galway cleric told the Miriam Finucane show.
“He would generally be seen as the leader of that. There is an enormous power struggle going on in the Vatican, at the moment, there’s no doubt about that,” the 68-year-old said.
“A lot of people there who are very unhappy with the type of thing that Francis is doing,” he said, adding that he was a fan of Francis and liked the way he was going about reforming the church.
Fr Flannery also said that the Pope was unable to touch the power of the CDF, who are still “very strong and powerful.” …
“At the height of the clerical sexual abuse cases in Ireland, I wrote in an article “The priesthood in Ireland now is not as Jesus intended,” he said.
He said that this led to him being “silenced” by Rome, but he chose to ignore that, but added that he cannot officially practice Ministry.
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