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By Delia Gallagher, CNN
Tue July 11, 2017

Rome (CNN)A top Vatican cardinal recently dismissed by Pope Francis struck back this week, calling the Pope’s treatment of him and other Vatican employees “unacceptable.”

“I cannot accept this way of doing things,” Cardinal Gerhard Muller said in an interview with German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse.

“As a bishop, [the Pope] cannot treat people in this way.”

Francis informed Muller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican’s doctrinal office, that he would not be renewing his contract in a brief meeting on June 30, just two days before the contract expired.

“He did not give a reason,” the 69-year-old cardinal said in the interview. “Just as he gave no reason for dismissing three highly competent members of the CDF a few months earlier.”

Greg Burke, director of the Vatican Press Office, told…