Posted on 02/12/2022 5:57:28 PM PST by marshmallow
In an exclusive interview with the Register, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith castigated the state of the Church in Germany and its ‘Synodal Way’ process.
VATICAN CITY — Faithful Catholics are today facing a period of persecution, tribulation and “psychological terror” that, in an unprecedented way, is coming from within their own countries that have ancient Christian traditions, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has observed.
The German cardinal made the observation in an exclusive Feb. 5 interview with the Register, during which he issued a blistering attack on the state of the Church in Germany and the “Synodal Way,” a controversial multiyear reform process that grew out of the clergy sexual-abuse crisis.
The prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said these attacks on the faithful from within are coming from “secularized” parts of the Church and frequently occur in the workplace or in schools.
Now is a “time of tribulation and psychological terror,” and orthodox Catholics are being “persecuted; and in some countries this is culminating in martyrdom,” Cardinal Müller noted. “Usually this has come from the outside, but now it’s from the inside, in our countries that have old Christian traditions. It’s a new situation.”
The cardinal’s words came as a plenary meeting of the “Synodal Way” was concluding last weekend.
The participants voted at that meeting for a raft of dissenting notions that included same-sex union blessings; changes to the Catechism on homosexuality; the ordination of women priests; priestly celibacy to be optional in the Latin Church; and for lay involvement in the election of new bishops.
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Praying for Catholics everywhere.
The crazy liberal German bishops just need to join the Episcopalians. That Woke church they synod already exists. Nobody goes there tho.
Church sucks since the libtards and the fags hijacked them for their own agenda 🤪
In their country, various wings of the mainline Lutheran Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) have everything these clowns want: women clergy, married clergy, same-sex marriage, same-sex-married clergy, etc etc.
And yet they insist on remaking the Catholic Church in the image of their failed Lutheran neighbor. It’s sickening.
“Lutheran … everything these clowns want”
I’ve long thought, why go to all the trouble to get to church (or Mass) on Sunday to hear a homily you could stay home and read in The New York Times or watch on MSNBC? Many increasingly don’t. Not sure about other churches but Catholic Church COVID weakness has been so damaging. Message to faithful: You don’t need God - physical health, preserving life is more important and God won’t protect you, you can’t trust Him.
“Lutheran … everything these clowns want”
I’ve long thought, why go to all the trouble to get to church (or Mass) on Sunday to hear a homily you could stay home and read in The New York Times or watch on MSNBC? Many increasingly don’t. Not sure about other churches but Catholic Church COVID weakness has been so damaging. Message to faithful: You don’t need God - physical health, preserving life is more important and God won’t protect you, you can’t trust Him.
At first thought it read “Psychological Error”. But that breeds “Psychological Terror”. Interesting Muller comment about the Church being betrayed by Her own. We’re led, so to speak, by a “devout Catholic” President.
You’re right, and that’s the great irony of the Vatican’s draconian war on the Latin Mass subculture. You’ve got approx. 80% of Catholics NOT bothering to show up anymore on Sunday, and then they declare war on the 2% who ARE the most hardcore, orthodox segment of the faithful? Superficially, it makes no sense. On a different level, it makes total sense. Pre-covid, the Latin Mass subculture was already punching above its weight in terms of vocations to the priesthood, lay participation, etc. Covid only magnified that trend. When even fewer people are showing up, the Latin Mass folks are still there and growing become even scarier for the apostates in Rome.
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