Pope accepts Cardinal Sarah’s resignation
February 22, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: In November 2014, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert Sarah to a five-year term as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In accord with the apostolic constitution Pastor Bonus, Cardinal Sarah submitted his resignation in June 2020, when he turned 75. Pope Francis has not named a successor.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Feb. 22, 2021 9:08 AM ET USA
To accept his resignation, or not to accept it. I'll bet that was a grueling, heart-wrenching call for the Holy Pontiff of God to make. Now he can appoint someone with the sharpness of focus of an Archbishop Paglia or the sense of the zeitgeist of a Bishop Sorondo. We breathlessly await the Pontiff's decision.
