Posted on 09/07/2015 6:08:36 AM PDT by marshmallow
The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has warned against a serious split within the Church over questions involving marriage and human sexuality.
Speaking in Regensburg, Cardinal Gerhard Müller said that the drive by Church leaders in his native Germany to claim a leadership role in defining policy for the universal Church should be examined critically, in light of the mass exodus from the German Catholic Church.
Cardinal Müller said that the Church should not accept the secularizing trend that is most evident in Western Europe, because it is not an “inevitable natural process.” While the trend is strong, he said, energetic evangelization can counteract it: “With faith you can move mountains.”
The Germans are at it again. Not enough to have carved out ‘Lutheran Christianity,’ they want to dilute Catholicism to reflect what THEY believe. Tsk tsk. Didn’t anyone learn anything from the ‘Reformation?’
The article is dead wrong.
The argument ultimately is over the authority of scripture when the bible disagrees with the desires of the clergy.
Sexuality is merely the most visible manifestation of the core problem.
This is the least of Germany’s problems.
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