Cardinal George Pell sent the Pope a public warning in July about
his lurch to the Left:
Cardinal George Pell has
publicly criticised Pope Francis’ decision to place climate change at the top
of the Catholic Church’s agenda. Cardinal
Pell, a well-known climate change skeptic, told the Financial Times the church
had “no particular expertise in science”.
“The church has got no
mandate from the Lord to pronounce on scientific matters,” he said, “We believe in the autonomy of science.”
Civil war has erupted at
the top of the Catholic Church, with 13 cardinals, including Australia’s
George Pell, warning the Pope in a letter that the church is in danger of
collapsing like liberal Protestant churches in the modern era. The cardinals say the threat of collapse has
been accelerated by the “abandonment of key elements of Christian belief and
practice in the name of pastoral adaptation’’.
As well as Cardinal Pell, the Vatican’s
Secretary for the Economy, cardinals from Bologna, Toronto, New York,
Galveston, Nairobi, Mexico, Utrecht, Durban and Caracas signed the letter, as
well as other senior Vatican officials. These included Guinean Cardinal Robert
Sarah, the church’s Prefect for Divine Worship, and German Cardinal Gerhard
Mueller, the Prefect for Doctrine.....To Read More.....
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