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Cardinal Müller's Hard Line Against FSSPX and German Synodal Path

“There have been endless dialogues with the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, but they simply circle around,” Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told TheCatholicHerald.com on December 12.

“There is no way around recognising the Second Vatican Council as the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church.”

He added: “The claim that the Lefebvrists are the last bastion of true Catholicity must finally come to an end.”

At the same time, Cardinal Müller acknowledged that the Fraternity has correctly identified “the wounds inflicted on the Body of Christ by self-appointed reformers in the style of Modernism.” But, he insisted, “there is never a justification for distancing oneself from the Catholic Church — even though the Church is a mixture of saints and sinners.”

For Cardinal Müller, the moment has come for “all Catholics to reunite in the truth of Christ, who in the person of St Peter and his successor, Pope Leo XIV, has established an enduring principle and foundation of unity.”

"German Synod is Heretical"

On the German Synod, Cardinal Müller stressed that the dioceses in Germany are part of the universal Church and “are Catholic only insofar as they share the Catholic faith, the sacraments, and the Church’s divine constitution.”

“But the organisation of the so-called Synodal Path possesses no magisterial authority, nor is it a constituent assembly empowered to establish a German national church in an Anglican or Protestant style.”

If even the magisterium of the Pope and the bishops is bound to Revelation and Apostolic Tradition, he said, then this applies all the more to the German Synodal Path.

“It is nothing other than a heretical attempt to replace the Christian understanding of the human person with gender ideology, and to present this corruption of doctrine to a naïve audience as its so-called ‘development’.”

Any talk of God, Christ, or the sacraments, he added, is merely ornamental — “a pious veneer to obscure the transformation of the Church of Christ into a religious-social NGO with spiritual slogans.”

In conclusion, Cardinal Müller warned: “The devastating record of progressivism in Germany since the 1970s is evident in mass departures from the Church, empty seminaries, closed monasteries, and an appalling ignorance of God and the Catholic faith.”

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CatholicConclave

Trying to defend the credentials of his platform by attacking the SSPX is not a good look.

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Noname Senki

He was the diocesan bishop of the Zaitzkofen seminary. It is clear that he did not like the SSPX very much, and still does not.

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CatholicConclave

That explains a lot. He could not afford to be seen dead with them.

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Noname Senki

I remember the hysterical statement he made in 2009 before his first ordination. I was there.

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Noname Senki

@CatholicConclave And we haven't even mentioned Cardinal Müller's heresy (denial of dogma – the "triple virginity" of the Virgin Mary) in his book on dogmatics published in the 1980s.

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philosopher

Cardinal Muller accurately, describes the Synodal Way's desire to replace the Deposit of Faith with gender ideology, but as @sp2 . . noted these attitudes and intentions are not just applicable to the Church in Germany but are found everywhere in the Western Latin Rite!

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giveusthisday

"Any talk of God, Christ, or the sacraments, (in the German Synodal Church), he added, is merely ornamental -a pious veneer..." Bravo, Cardinal Muller, but strong words for the Pius X movement...

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foward

IIVC is not Catholic. The contradiction of truth has no place in the Catholic Church.

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Irishpol

@foward AMEN!!!!

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Ewok C.

Interviewers need to begin pressing these waffling conservative cardinals by asking: Does not the Second Vatican Council have a relationship with the Protestant Reformation? If so--and it does--does not the solution for today have a relationship with the Counter-Reformation?

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Irishpol

Cardinal Muller is another wolf in sheep's clothing; it's just that his "sheep's costume" often appears more realistic than many of the others.
Fortunately, the FSSPX and their followers are onto men like Muller. They are well aware that, although Vatican II may have been a valid Council, it was hijacked by Modernist bishops who were able to create a counterfeit religion that now controls the "Institutional Church" in Rome.
It is now tragically clear that over the past 60 years, those Modernists have fooled many unwitting Catholics into believing the Institutional Church in Rome is professing the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church.
Regardless, with the help of God and faithful Catholics, the Society will continue to profess the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church until Rome returns to the truth — or the end of time, whichever comes first.

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Denis Efimov

Vatican II had a chance to become the twenty-first Catholic Council, had it not been the scene of a revolution. In the end, it became not the twenty-first Council of the Catholic Church, but the first council of the conciliar-synodal church.

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