(12 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 12 May 2025
1. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in his office
2. Cardinal Mueller”s hands and cross
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:
"The Pope has the greatest responsibility for the unity of the church. And only in those things that are necessary, fundamental, we need a complete unity, but in the ritual forms there is a certain possibility of different expressions of your piety."
4. Cardinal Mueller”s hands and cross
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:
"I am convinced that he will overcome these superfluous tensions. It was damaging for the church to see the church in, so superfluous conflicts. We cannot avoid all the conflicts, but we have to avoid the not necessary conflicts, superfluous conflicts. I hope and I think that it will concentrate him to what is necessary in the church and necessary elements of the unity and he will be tolerant to different possibilities of being a good and faithful Catholic."
6. Mueller in his office
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:
"I don’t know, but I think it was a good impression of him to everybody. And in the end, it was a great concordia, great harmony and there was no polemics, no fractionizing. And this was for us a sign of the Holy Spirit."
8. Close up of St. Peter’s Basilica dome framed by columns in Vatican City
9. Visitors walking through the Vatican City with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background
10. Various of St Peter basilica
STORYLINE:
They went into last week’s conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years.
And yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful that he will return doctrinal rigor to the papacy, even as progressives sense he will continue Francis’ reformist agenda.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, a titan of the conservative bloc, said Monday he was very pleased with the election and expected that Leo would heal the divisions that escalated during Francis’ pontificate. Mueller, who was fired by Francis as the Vatican’s doctrinal chief, suggested as a first step that Leo would restore access to the old Latin Mass that his predecessor had greatly restricted.
“I am convinced that he will overcome these superfluous tensions (which were) damaging for the church,” Mueller said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We cannot avoid all the conflicts, but we have to avoid the not necessary conflicts, the superfluous conflicts.”
His sense of hope is significant, given that conservative cardinals went into the conclave at a numerical disadvantage. Francis appointed 108 of the 133 electors, including the former Cardinal Robert Prevost and other pastors in his image.
But in the secret dynamics of the conclave, the Augustinian missionary who spent most of his priestly life in Peru secured far more than the two-thirds majority needed on the fourth ballot in an exceptionally quick, 24-hour conclave. The speed and margin defied expectations, given that this was the largest, most geographically diverse conclave in history and the cardinals barely knew each other.
“I think it was a good impression of him to everybody, and in the end it was a great concordia, a great harmony,” Mueller said. “There was no polemics, no fractionizing.”
AP video by Paolo Santalucia
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