Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass on Saturday, the Vatican said, as revelations emerge of the Australian prelate's growing concern about what he considered the 'disaster' and 'catastrophe' of the papacy under Francis.
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Pell, who had served as Francis' first finance minister for three years before returning to Australia to face child sex abuse charges, died on Tuesday at a Rome hospital of heart complications following hip surgery. He was 81. But Pell, a staunch conservative, grew increasingly disillusioned with the direction of Francis' papacy, including its emphasis on inclusion and canvassing of the laity about the future of the church.
The memo is divided into two parts -- "The Vatican Today" and "The Next Conclave" -- and lists a series of points covering everything from Francis' "weakened" preaching of the Gospel to the precariousness of the Holy See's finances and the "lack of respect for the law" in the city-state, including in the current financial corruption trial underway that Pell himself had championed.
Referring to the Vatican's summary of the canvassing effort, Pell complained of a "deepening confusion, the attack on traditional morals and the insertion into the dialogue of neo-Marxist jargon about exclusion, alienation, identity, marginalization, the voiceless, LGBTQ2S+ as well as the displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin, sacrifice, healing, redemption."
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