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10<br />
MONDAY, JULY 3, <strong>2017</strong><br />
DT<br />
News<br />
Pope shakes up Vatican by replacing<br />
conservative doctrinal chief<br />
• Reuters, Vatican City<br />
WORLD <br />
In a major shake up of the Vatican’s<br />
administration on Saturday, Pope<br />
Francis replaced Catholicism’s top<br />
theologian, a conservative German<br />
cardinal who has been at odds with<br />
the pontiff’s vision of a more inclusive<br />
Church.<br />
A brief Vatican statement said<br />
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller’s<br />
five-year mandate as head<br />
of the Congregation for the Doctrine<br />
of the Faith, a key department<br />
charged with defending<br />
Catholic doctrine, would not be<br />
renewed.<br />
Mueller, 69, who was appointed<br />
by former Pope Benedict in 2012,<br />
will be succeeded by the department’s<br />
number two, Archbishop<br />
Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer.<br />
Former Pope Benedict embraces newly elected cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller<br />
of Germany during a consistory ceremony led by Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s<br />
Basilica at the Vatican February 22, 2014<br />
REUTERS<br />
Ladaria, a 73-year-old Spaniard<br />
who, like the Argentine pope<br />
is a member of the Jesuit order,<br />
is said by those who know him<br />
to be a soft-spoken person who<br />
shuns the limelight. Mueller, by<br />
contrast, often appears in the<br />
media.<br />
Since his election in 2013, Francis<br />
has given hope to progressives<br />
who want him to forge ahead with<br />
his vision for a more welcoming<br />
Church that concentrates on mercy<br />
rather than the strict enforcement<br />
of rigid rules they see as antiquated.<br />
Mueller is one of several cardinals<br />
in the Vatican who have publicly<br />
sparred with the pope.<br />
In 2015 he was among 13 cardinals<br />
who signed a secret letter to<br />
the pope complaining that a meeting<br />
of bishops discussing family<br />
issues was stacked in favour of liberals.<br />
The letter was leaked, embarrassing<br />
the signatories.<br />
Mueller has criticised parts of a<br />
2016 papal treatise called “Amoris<br />
Laetitia” (The Joy of Love), a cornerstone<br />
document of Francis’ attempt<br />
to make the 1.2 billion-member<br />
Church more inclusive and less<br />
condemning.<br />
In it, Francis called for a<br />
Church that is less strict and more<br />
compassionate towards any “imperfect”<br />
members, such as those<br />
who divorced and remarried, saying<br />
“no one can be condemned<br />
forever”.<br />
Conservatives have concentrated<br />
their criticism on the document’s<br />
opening to Catholics who<br />
divorce and remarry in civil ceremonies,<br />
without getting Church<br />
annulments.<br />
Under Church law they cannot<br />
receive communion unless they<br />
abstain from sex with their new<br />
partner, because their first marriage<br />
is still valid in the eyes of the<br />
Church and therefore they are seen<br />
to be living in an adulterous state<br />
of sin. •<br />
Citycell CEO Mehboob<br />
Chowdhury granted bail<br />
• Md Sanaul Islam Tipu<br />
COURTS <br />
A Dhaka court has granted bail to Mehboob<br />
Chowdhury, CEO mobile phone operator<br />
Citycell, yesterday afternoon after he was produced<br />
before the court by the Anti-Corruption<br />
Commission (ACC).<br />
He had been detained in the airport<br />
area in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon for<br />
allegedly embezzling Tk348.5 crore<br />
that had been taken as a bank loan for<br />
Citycell.<br />
ACC Deputy Director Sheikh Abdus Salam,<br />
investigation officer of the case, produced<br />
Mehboob before Dhaka Chief Metropolitan<br />
Brac clarification<br />
• Tribune Desk<br />
NATION <br />
Brac says they are investigating allegations of<br />
forcing Ramgamati landslide victims to pay<br />
their loan installment by Brac staff in shelters<br />
last month.<br />
In response to a Dhaka Tribune report<br />
“NGOs press landslide victims for loan repayment”<br />
published on on June 22, Brac told<br />
the Dhaka Tribune: “We assure you that Brac<br />
management has strictly ordered its staff in<br />
those areas to immediately stop instalment<br />
collection.<br />
“However, we are seriously investigating<br />
the specific case of a Brac staff acting in breach<br />
of our code of conduct and in violation of clear<br />
Magistrate Lashkar Sohel Rana and requested<br />
the court to place him in prison, but the court<br />
rejected it.<br />
Mehboob’s defence counsel Kamrul Islam<br />
Sikder filed a bail petition for him, which the<br />
court granted.<br />
Earlier on Saturday, ACC Public Relations<br />
Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the<br />
Bangla Tribune that the Citycell CEO had been<br />
arrested in a case filed over the embezzlement<br />
of Tk348.5 crore taken as a loan from the AB<br />
Bank.<br />
The ACC filed the case with Banani police<br />
station on June 28 this year.<br />
A total of 16 people, including former foreign<br />
affairs minister M Morshed Khan, have<br />
been accused in the case. •<br />
instructions given, as reported in your newspaper.<br />
We will take appropriate action once<br />
the facts come to light.<br />
“Brac has a very strict code of conduct<br />
for its frontline microfinance staff and we<br />
take compliance with that code very seriously.<br />
Moreover, during times of natural<br />
calamities, we always send further instructions<br />
to field offices in the affected areas to<br />
stand by our clients instead of focusing on<br />
recovery.<br />
“In recent weeks, this was done during<br />
the Haor crisis as well. Brac is committed<br />
to upholding the highest standards of client<br />
protection and is the only microfinance provider<br />
in Bangladesh and the largest globally<br />
to have been Smart Certified for Client Protection.”<br />
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