Cardinal Gerhard Müller has criticised the way in which Pope Francis dismissed him as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), calling it “unacceptable”.
In an interview with the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, the cardinal said that on the last working day of his five-year term as prefect Pope Francis informed him “within a minute” of the decision not to extend his mandate.
“He did not give a reason,” the 69-year-old cardinal said. “Just as he gave no reason for dismissing three highly competent members of the CDF a few months earlier.”
