“Christians do not hide behind anti-faith ideologies”. Cardinal Müller fears rigged Synod in new interview.

Cardinal Müller in the kath.net interview about the Synod of Bishops: “I hope that the truth of Christ determines the direction of the synod and not a group dynamic process that leads the participants in the direction of an anti-Christian anthropology…”

“Only with the greatest possible transparency can the impression be avoided that the working methods are in the service of an agenda whose results are manipulated using questionable methods. Everyone sees through the talk about freedom that should be guaranteed by watertight isolation from the media, which one secretly feeds, even if - like the child in the parable - they don't dare to say that the emperor is naked .” This is what the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller, explains in the KATH.NET exclusive interview about the upcoming Universal Church Synod of Bishops. Müller is a participant in the Synod of Bishops (see link).

kath.net: Cardinal Müller: What questions – and hopes! – will you go with to the Synod on Synodality?

Cardinal Müller: A Bishop is the successor of the apostles by virtue of his ordination. He is commissioned to lead the priestly people of God as shepherd, with the Gospel, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Head of the Church, and “by virtue of his guiding spirit” (from the consecration prayer for the bishops in Hippolytus, Traditio Apostolica 3). to teach and sanctify with the sacraments of grace (Lumen Gentium 20). “With the apostolic succession, the bishops received the reliable charism of truth (charisma vertitatis certum), as it pleased God. But everyone else who doesn't want to know anything about this succession, which goes back to the origin, and gathers anywhere at will, is suspected of being either heretics with evil in mind, or schismatics. All these people abandon the truth. ” (Irenaeus of Lyon, Against the Heresies IV 26, 2).

I hope that the truth of Christ determines the direction of the synod and not a group dynamic process that leads the participants in the direction of an anti-Christian anthropology that questions the dual gender of man created by God. This blatant contradiction to the divine and Catholic faith is often veiled with an alleged pastoral care for people with some sort of “erotic preference”.

The standard of Christian thought is man, for whose sake the Son of God became man and redeemed us from sin and death through his death on the cross. Because the propagandists of these anti-scientific and anti-revelation ideologies are actually not concerned with human happiness and the eternal salvation of people who are created in God's image and likeness, but rather with the relativization and thus destruction of the natural and sacramental marriage of man and woman . A fictitious “blessing” of same-sex couples is not only a blasphemy against the Creator of the world and man, but also a serious sin against the salvation of the people affected, who are deceived into believing that sexual activity outside of marriage is godly, which is described in the revealed Word of God as serious sin against the sixth commandment (Rom 1:26f; 1 Cor 9:11).

Christians do not hide behind anti-faith ideologies and arbitrary, positivist legislations that obviously contradict reason, which is based on natural and revealed reality. The disciples of Christ are fearlessly guided by the Word of God, which in the mouth of the apostle reads as follows: “Beware of fornication! Every other sin that man commits remains outside the body. But whoever commits fornication sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in you and whom you have from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:18f).

kath.net: Which participants are you looking forward to meeting again?

Cardinal Müller: To the many bishops, priests and lay people with whom I am connected in suffering and working for the Catholic faith.

kath.net: Do you want to try to get speaking time in the plenary session?

Cardinal Müller: Unfortunately, how the synod works is not yet clear. It would be right if all (!) bishops, without exception, spoke in the plenary session for at least 3-5 minutes. The work in the small groups (circuli minores) should supplement and concretize this and serve to prepare for the final document, the individual points of which will be presented for voting.

Only with the greatest possible transparency can the impression be avoided that the working methods are in the service of an agenda whose results are manipulated using questionable methods.

Everyone sees through the talk about freedom that should be guaranteed by watertight isolation from the media, which one secretly feeds, even if - like the child in the parable - they don't dare to say that the emperor is naked .

kath.net: Which language circle will you join?

Cardinal Müller: I was assigned to an Italian language group, but I am in contact with the participants in all official synod languages.

kath.net: What concerns will you try to bring forward – also on behalf of specific believers who are in contact with you?

Cardinal Müller: In view of the discussions in advance and the false expectations of a correction of revelation, which is unfailingly present in the dogmatic teaching of the Church, in the sense of the naturalistic view of man, in which man is just the accidental product of a blind development, Instead of a thinking spirit that understands the world in the light of God's creation and will to salvation, I would like to draw particular attention to Vatican II with the Dogmatic Constitution on the Divine Revelation Dei Verbum.

We remain Catholic only if we believe and confess that God has revealed himself once for all in Jesus Christ, his Son, “full of grace and truth” (cf. John 1:14-18).

“What God had revealed for the salvation of all nations, he decreed in goodness - should be preserved intact for all time and passed on to all generations. Therefore Christ the Lord, in whom the entire revelation of the Most High God is completed, commanded the apostles to preach to everyone the gospel, which he himself brought as the fulfillment of the prophetic promise made earlier and personally proclaimed publicly, as the source of all salvation truth and moral teachings and thus to communicate divine gifts to them. This has been faithfully carried out, both by the apostles, who passed on by oral preaching, by example, and by institutions, what they had received from Christ's mouth, in association with him, and through his works, or what they had learned under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit , as well as those apostles and apostolic men who, under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit, wrote down the message of salvation. In order that the Gospel may be preserved forever intact and alive in the Church, the Apostles left behind bishops as their successors and 'delivered to them their own teaching authority'. This Holy Tradition and the Holy Scripture of both Testaments are, as it were, a mirror in which the Church looks at God, from whom she receives everything, on her earthly pilgrimage until she is led to see him face to face, as he is. (Dei verbum 7).

The person who believes in God differs fundamentally from his ideologically (Jacobin, communist, social Darwinist, National Socialist, Wokist) seduced contemporaries in that he sees himself as a hearer of God's word. He confesses to Jesus, the only teacher of truth (Matt 23:10; John 14:6) and “author of life” (Acts 3:15). “And in no other name is salvation to be found. For there is no other name under heaven given to us men by which we should be saved. (Acts 4:12).

Against the historical and modernist Gnostics of today, Irenaeus of Lyon, to whom Pope Francis bestowed the honorary title “Doctor ecclesiae”, already stated in the 2nd century that with Christ the full truth and all newness entered history, which no one had (idealistic or materialistic) philosophy and human science and engineering and technology (the 2030 Agenda). “I contradict all heretics... Read more carefully the Gospel given to us by the apostles, and read the prophets more carefully. You will find in it the entire work, the entire teaching and the entire passion of our Lord foretold. But should you come to the idea of asking, 'What new did the Lord bring by coming?' Know that Christ only brought new things. That was precisely what was announced, that something new would come to renew and revitalize people.” (Against the Heresies IV, 34, 1).

Today's Christian does not locate himself (horizontalistically) on the ideological and political spectrum from left to right. Nor can it be classified as conservative or progressive in the scheme of belief in progress.

A Christian is the one who, with his mind and will, gives God the “obedience of faith” (Rom 1:5) and willingly consents to his revelation” (cf. Dei verbum 5).

Christians in the sense of the Catholic faith can only call themselves those who are "fully incorporated into the communion of the Church and in possession of the Spirit of Christ, who accept her whole order and all the means of salvation established in it, and are united in their visible union with Christ, who guides them through the Pope and the bishops, and this through the bonds of the profession of faith, the sacraments and ecclesial government and communion". (Lumen Gentium 14).

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