Posted on 10/14/2024 8:20:13 AM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller took part in the ex-synod for the first time on 14 October. He had been unable to attend the first two weeks of the meeting for hernia problems.
Nd.nl learnt that Müller immediately took the floor to make it clear that the symposium was "not a real synod".
He criticised the fact that priests, deacons, religious and lay people were also allowed to vote alongside the bishops.
In an earlier statement, Cardinal Müller had said that it was not a synod, "but a symposium".
Müller was dressed as a cardinal, while most bishops and cardinals limit their episcopal attire to a pectoral cross.
Ping
On the last day of the third module of the Synod (with just under two weeks to go), Cardinal Gerhard Müller returned to the Synod after having to miss the first two weeks due to illness.
According to “synod sources” of Vaticanist Hendro Munstermann, Müller renewed his previous criticism of the Synod, saying that due to its make up of lay people it is not a proper synod.
Interestingly, this point was not included by the Vatican’s Paolo Ruffini in the summary of interventions provided to journalists at the daily press briefing on Monday.
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