The global Head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has sacked the church’s chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller.
Mueller’s office processes and evaluates all cases of priests accused of raping or molesting minors.
This development comes just days after Pope Francis released another
top Vatican cardinal to return home to stand trial for alleged sexual
assault.
Mueller had also been caught up in the controversy surrounding the
church’s response to the clerical sex abuse scandal after his office was
accused of obstructing Francis’s efforts to stop internal cover-ups of
abuse.
In March 2017, a prominent church reform group called for Mueller’s
resignation after accusations that senior officials had willfully
ignored Francis’s decision to create a new tribunal to judge bishops who
cover up sexual abuse.
Pope Francis named Mueller’s deputy, Monsignor Luis Ladaria Ferrer, a Spanish Jesuit, to run the powerful office instead.
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