Posted on 01/30/2025 10:41:57 AM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that many bishops and cardinals favor President Donald Trump but are afraid to say it publicly.
In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the former head of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith said that he “personally prefer[s] Donald Trump to Joe Biden.”
When asked why that is, despite Trump being a Protestant and Biden a Catholic, he answered: “Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.”
He added that “many cardinals and bishops think like me, even if they are afraid to say so. And in the United States, the percentage is even higher.”
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Müller also talked about Brian Burch, the founder of CatholicVote and newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
“I’ve been told that Burch is a good Catholic,” the German cardinal said. “And Trump will help the Church because he represents natural law values: the inviolability of life, the importance of marriage, religious freedom.”
“And he pursues the idea of a state that does not meddle in every area of life. Even on immigrants, one has to distinguish. If he sends criminals away, that’s good. If he expels them as foreigners, no,” Müller added.
In a recently released statement, the USCCB called the Trump administration’s immigration policies that would include mass deportations of illegal immigrants “deeply troubling.” Müller’s statements imply that not all active U.S. bishops agreed with the sentiment expressed by the USCCB.
Müller met both Trump and Vice President JD Vance in 2022 during his trip to the U.S. He said that Trump expressed “his respect for the Catholic faith.”
“Vance told me that it was precisely his encounter with Catholicism that enabled him to overcome the problems he was dragging from childhood,” Müller recalled.
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Ping
Trump ain’t even that good a Protestant
tHE Cardinal GETS IT.
What about a good Orthodox (once we get one)?
The problem with the Church in a nutshell... those who are supposed to teach and preach the truth are afraid of the truth.
Oooh! That’s gonna leave a mark!
“Trump ain’t even that good a Protestant”
Joe Biden’s Catholicism was a very low bar.
I don’t care if Trump isn’t a Christian. I think he’s probably a deist with a pro Christian cultural attitude, and that’s good enough for me.
Absolutely.
Religion seems to bring out the 'good' in people. /s
Jimmy Carter was a “Christian”, how did that work out for us?
when Roman Catholics, and Protesting Catholic denominations begin to wholeheartedly embrace and seek to live and obey the KNOWN commands and expectations of Holy God... Evil and wickedness in this nation will be evicted by Holy God from our Nation.
How about a good Muslim?
Oops! There ain’t no such thing.
What does that mean?
Melania is the RC in the family so there is that. Granted in her book she said she supports the right to choose abortion so it seems a lot of so called Catholics don’t exactly follow the basics.
Exactly. Hillary claims to be a Methodist too, not to mention Obama’s membership in Rev Wright’s personality cult.
I don’t see Trump as being a devoted Presbyterian.
He is at best a nominal Christian. He’s still better than Biden
“”””I don’t see Trump as being a devoted Presbyterian.””””
Trump isn’t a Presbyterian, a few years ago he embraced Christianity and now describes himself as a non-denominational Christian.
The Cardinal puts a new spin on Luther’s remark regarding princes:
“Better a wise Turk than a Christian fool”.
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