After the death of Francis on Monday, the conservative 77-year-old German cardinal Gerhard Müller challenged the late Pope’s agenda
Cardinal Müller was dropped as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope Francis
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Tom Kington, Vatican City
Wednesday April 23 2025, 9.35pm BST, The Times
The Catholic Church risks a schism if it elects another liberal leader like Pope Francis, a leading conservative cardinal has warned ahead of next month’s conclave.Gerhard Müller also cautioned cardinals arriving for the papal vote to avoid the backroom manoeuvres depicted in the Oscar-winning film Conclave.
“It’s not a power game played by stupid people looking to manipulate, like in this film, which has nothing to do with reality,” the German cardinal said.
Francis and Müller differed on a number of issues facing the Church
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Müller, 77, has long been a leading light among Catholic conservatives who opposed the “mercy before dogma” approach of Francis, who died on Monday.
Appointed by Francis’s traditionalist predecessor Benedict XVI as the Vatican’s doctrinal chief, Müller kept his job after the Argentinian pontiff’s election in 2013 but soon challenged his leader’s liberal agenda.
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