Cardinal Müller compares ‘pagan’ German bishops to WWII-era German Christians who sold out to the Nazis

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Former top Catholic theological authority brings the hammer down on radical progressive prelates

I sat next to Cardinal Gerhard Müller at a dinner this past summer. The man is a mountain. Here's part of what the big German told a Catholic publication about the crazypants theological liberalism forwarded by the German Catholic bishops (see my post from the other day about their Suicide-By-Synod) in defiance of Catholic tradition and Vatican authority:

Rilinger: The communion also includes various patriarchates and Eastern churches that recognize the Pope as their head. The movement of the so-called Synodal Way seems to amount to a separation of the German local churches from the Roman Catholic Church. Do you nevertheless see a possibility that this new church remains in church and Eucharistic communion with the Roman Church, so that this new patriarchate or this new church could also recognize the Pope as spiritual head?

Cardinal Müller: The so-called Synodal Way has nothing whatsoever to do with the formation of the old patriarchal churches. Originally, the churches founded by Peter (Antioch, Alexandria through Peter’s disciple Mark, Rome) were called patriarchates. Later, Constantinople was added for political reasons, while Jerusalem was added for reasons of reverence. Then the Orthodox (autocephalous) national churches reserved the title Patriarch for the leading bishop. In Germany, however, the issue is the attempt to take possession of Catholic institutions, church taxes and building stock for an organization that has abandoned the Catholic faith in its essential elements and has definitely left the ground of revelation. The baptismal creed has been replaced by the idol of pagan LGBT ideology. Instead of looking up to the cross of Christ and carrying the flag of victory of the Risen Christ before humanity, the protagonists of the German Synod raise the rainbow flag, which represents a public rejection of the Christian image of man. They have replaced the creed with the confession to the idols of a neo-pagan religion.

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The level of compromise in the German churches whether Catholic or Lutheran is truly frightening. There remain genuine believers in this country but the hierarchies have been severely compromised. It is one of the reasons for the impending financial crisis in the German church as people stop paying church tax into it. They have become just another cost with views no better than the general mass of the population. The church leaders are too often focused on the fabric of the buildings and admin of the church rather than on its true meaning. Those at the top are the product of a rarified academic culture that is more concerned about sounding relevant and professional than at being embarrassingly honest about the true condition of the human heart and German society as a whole.

On a deeper level, I would suggest that existential individualism and the reproductively sterile pleasure streaming of the generations since the sixties and seventies are the deeper causes here. Existentialism was born in the age of objective science and clear doctrinal control begging for recognition and valuation of the subjective, of inner thoughts, experiences, and feelings. But now it seems these are prioritized over the clear boundaries set by church teaching and even objective scientific facts. For example, the whole trans debate where a person's psychological identity has trumped biological identity to produce an unhinged moral disaster. The obvious consequence of prioritizing the subjective over the objective is moral relativism where everything becomes the choice of an individual, and fact and doctrine are ignored.

We need a new balance rather than a restoration of the cold heartlessness of the Victorian era.

The rainbow is actually a Christian symbol that epitomizes hope rather than lust and pride as with the LGTBQ movement.
 
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