"The Holy Spirit cannot contradict himself"

The rebellion against synodality advances at the same pace as the synod itself. Two of the visible heads of the resistance, Cardinals Raymond Burke and Gerhard Müller, warn against possible changes in doctrine that would not be legal because, they say, “the Holy Spirit cannot contradict himself.”

A few weeks ago, on the eve of the synod, one of its most conspicuous participants, the American Jesuit James Martin, accused critics of the synod assembly of not believing in the Holy Spirit, as if the Third Person of the Holy Trinity were responsible for everything. whatever anyone proclaims in his name.

But in an intervention on the North American Catholic network EWTN, the former Prefect of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Burke, recalled the obvious: God cannot contradict himself, and say today the opposite of what he said yesterday.

Burke charged against the continuous reference to the Holy Spirit in the decisions of this Synod, pointing out that “it is the same one that has inspired the Church for two thousand years and does not contradict itself. He cannot have inspired for two thousand years that something is bad and now inspire that it is good.

Burke and his colleague Gerhard Müller, former prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith, reiterated for EWTN the doctrine of the faith and urged Catholics to resist with fortitude and remain in the one Church of Christ.

The first two acts of the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, namely the publication of Pope Francis' letter to the first version of the Dubia of five cardinals and the response to questions from Cardinal Dominik Duka on Amoris Lætitia , contradicted the constant teaching of the Church on at least one capital point: the intrinsic evil of sexuality exercised outside of legitimate marriage. These documents bear the ex audientia signature of Francis, but the usual formula is not found in them: "the Supreme Pontiff NN, the..., approved this Letter (or Instruction/Decree/Note, etc.) and has ordered its publication." The detail is worthy of mention and entrusted to the reflection of the canonists.

“Let us remain with Christ in the Church,” Burke implores. “Although it is the Pope who defends the false, we defend the truth (…). We believe that the Lord is bringing everything to a good end. Meanwhile the suffering is terrible; In any case, I do not underestimate the suffering of Catholics; I don't know how good a Catholic I am, but I also suffer. But we must trust in the Lord, stay with Him, not go elsewhere. And he gives the example of the strength of Saint Athanasius, who had to suffer all kinds of punishments and sanctions to defend the faith. "We must also be willing to do so," the cardinal said.

Müller spoke of the undignified treatment that some Catholic bishops are receiving from the Pope, such as the Bishop of Tyler, Monsignor Strickland, while sexual abusers, such as Rupnik, enjoy his protection: "The bishop is not a delegate of the Pope." The Pope can only intervene when there are serious problems, of a moral or doctrinal nature; "It is a shame that good Orthodox bishops are subject to these pressures and that others who are doing many bad things and are heterodox receive great tolerance from Rome."

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