The next Pope must "clarify" Francis' decision to allow the "blessing" of homosexuals, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told Repubblica.it (April 24):
"The document approved under Francis should help these people pastorally, but the Catholic doctrine of marriage cannot be relativized."
The Church cannot be transformed from an autocracy into a democracy: "It is a false premise to confuse the Church with a political organization, like the World Economic Forum or the United Nations", Cardinal Müller said.
Asked about the next pope, he replied: "Every Pope must serve the mission of St. Peter: he is servus servorum Dei. The future Pope is not a successor of his predecessor, but a successor of Peter".
The cardinals who vote in the conclave must remember "that we are the Mystical Body of Christ and not an international humanitarian and social organization":
"This pleases many secularized people, the elite, the oligarchs, who want the Pope as a symbol of their religion - but the Pope is not a symbol of secularized religion", the Cardinal proclaimed truisms.
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