VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s former doctrine chief has penned a “manifesto of faith” to remind Catholics of basic tenets of belief amid what he says is “growing confusion” in the church today. Cardinal Gerhard Mueller didn’t name Pope Francis in his four-page manifesto, released late Friday. Francis has reaffirmed the ban on ordination for women but has commissioned a study on women deacons in the early church. Already, four other cardinals have called on the Jesuit pope to clarify his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. Mueller’s manifesto carries the date of Feb. 10 — the eve of the sixth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s historic announcement that he would resign.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2019 06:22 UTC