Posted on 02/17/2023 6:15:09 PM PST by marshmallow
'Christ did not come to explain away and minimize sin by appealing to God's love, but to draw its deadly sting from our mortal being and to enable us to live ‘in true righteousness and holiness’ following Christ.'
(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller has condemned the heterodox Synodal Path, calling its proponents a “German Synodal sect.”
Müller, a former Prefect of the then-Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), made his remarks in an opinion piece published by kath.net, where he responded to heterodox statements made by Bishop Georg Bätzing during the World Synod meeting in Prague on February 8.
“The homosexual and gender ideologies, which contradict every scientific, philosophical, and theological anthropology, have replaced the hermeneutics of the Catholic faith in the ‘being different’ Catholicism of the German Synodal sect,” Müller stated.
Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference and co-president of the German Synodal Way, said that there are “different states in the reception of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and also the deepened exercise in democratic processes and structures” between the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
Bätzing furthermore stated that he is “disturbed” by the talks about the “rules of the faith” and “fixation on sin:”
From some statements I hear the call for clarity: What are the rules of faith in the Church? What belongs to the core of doctrine? And what is sin that can and must be named?
I am disturbed by this. The Christian faith is a religion of freedom and salvation — not of fixation on sin.
I can’t hide the impression that here possibly sin and being a sinner are insisted upon, in order to present the Church as unassailable and unchangeable and to insist on the existing criteria.........
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Surprise! The germans are at it again. Even the Romans knew long ago that the humans in germania were evil.
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