High-ranking African cardinal is allegedly ‘fed up,’ offers resignation letter to the Vatican Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, key advisor to the Pope and the only African to head a Vatican department, has abruptly offered his letter of resignation Peter Turkson, the Ghanian cardinal to the Catholic Church and the only African to head a Vatican department, has abruptly offered his letter of resignation on Saturday. Turkson has become one of the key advisors to Pope Francis on issues like climate control and social justice, and some experts say he could have been a leading candidate to become the next pope, which would make him the first Black pope in 1,500 years. According to inside sources, Turkson is reportedly “fed up” with internal disputes in the Catholic Church. The 73-year-old heads the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, which was founded in 2016 to deal with issues like peace, justice, and migration. Earlier this year, the Pope requested that Turkson’s department undergo an external review headed by the Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago. If accepted, Turkson’s departure would leave the Vatican with no African head of a major department. The other African department head, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, retired in February after being appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1979. This year has been particularly rocky for the Vatican. Following a continuation of the clergy child sexual abuse scandal, a new 2021 report alleged that more than 200,000 minors were abused by the Catholic Church in France over the past seven decades. Several members of the church faced abuse charges and were forced to vacate their positions. In June 2021, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx sent a letter of resignation as a symbol of the church’s “systemic failure” on child abuse and said that he wanted to “share the responsibility” of the mishandling of cases. Pope Francis denied Marx’s request, commanding him to continue as archbishop. “It is urgent to air out this reality of the abuses and how the Church acted, and let the Spirit lead us to the desert of desolation, to the cross and to the resurrection,” said the Pope in a statement responding to the heightened calls for the church to address the longstanding issues of sexual assault. “Silences, omissions, and giving too much weight to the prestige of the institution only leads to personal and historical failure, and makes us live with the weight of having skeletons in the closet,” he added. According to Church rules, Turkson would still be eligible to be a part of the group of cardinals that gets to elect the next pope after Francis dies or retires. Despite not giving an official reason for his resignation, Vatican sources say that Turkson will give more information after the Pope makes his decision
Cardinal Turkson offers his resignation. Why??: Last Week in the Church with John Allen Jr. - YouTube
One thing one notices under the reign of our present Holy Father is how nasty a piece of work he appears to be. This is a carry on off his time in Argentina when he was highly unpopular. A carry on also of his period as Superior of the Jesuits there was he caused so much havoc they had to dump him and send him into exile. A carry on of the period too when as a child his parents found him so upsetting they ceased talking to him. Everywhere he goes and everyone he seems to be in contact with their seems to have have been argument , fraction, hostility, anger, pain. The very opposite of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. To put it in a nutshell he appears to be a very,very nasty piece of work indeed. Always was right though his life and nothing has changed. The more power he is given the nastier he appears to have grown. Considering this it is amazing that people like Cardinal O'Malley still tout his as some kind of Prophet /Saint: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-a...a-give-distorted-image-of-us-support-for-pope
John Allen gives me the creeps. Even if I did like his style, having seen so much of him on CNN would be enough to make me wary of him. He and that awful Fr. Beck (I think that was the name of the priest who was also a regular on CNN) were part of the reason I wouldn't watch CNN if it were the only news source on the planet. If Pope Francis were to declare that the Resurrection never happened I would expect Allen to say that the Pope didn't really mean it and it's just his humble style. Either that or he'd pass it off as doctrinal development. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Cardinal Turkson story is a set up.
I suppose that's the reason he was on CNN. It does appear that he has good contacts in the Vatican. Whatever is going on in the Vatican, I wish they would stop sniping at each other through their media contacts.
