Posted on 11/29/2024 10:56:37 AM PST by ebb tide
The German cardinal criticized “relativism in doctrine” and told his audience that bishops of the Catholic Church “who betray their divine mission in order to avoid being accused of proselytism or of being rigorists for defending Christian morality have forgotten the meaning and reason of their existence.”
These comments follow upon the Synod on Synodality, recently completed in Rome, with further commissions continuing to discuss matters such as female ordination and the Church’s moral teachings.
Cardinal Müller makes it clear that we are dealing with a resurgence of the modernists comparable to that of the era of Pope Pius X:
Bishops and theologians who have forgotten that in Christ alone we are given the fullness of grace and truth, or who – like the modernists at the beginning of the 20th century – think they can develop the teachings of Christ according to their own liking, should remember the words of St. Paul: “If I wanted to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ: the Gospel I preached did not come from men … I received it through the Revelation of Christ.” (Gal 1:l0f)
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