Cardinal Mulller |
By Dr. Maike Hickson
(LifeSiteNews) — Speaking to Jacob
Rees-Mogg of GB News on December 17, Cardinal
Gerhard Müller made some strong comments on the state of Western countries
today.
According to Müller, Jesus Christ would
not only be condemned for being the Messiah, but also for his teaching on
marriage as being between one man and one woman. The prelate responded to a
comment by Rees-Mogg who said that it “seems Pope Francis has taken some
challenging positions on ‘trans’ people.”
Müller’s remarks were given a day before
Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández’s issued the December 18 document Fiducia
Supplicans, which permitted clerics to “bless” “couples in irregular
situations and same-sex couples.”
Pointing out that “pastoral concern for
the salvation of every person” is the duty of any priest, bishop, and pope,
Müller insisted in his reply that Christ gives everybody a “chance of
conversion and a new beginning.”
“But Jesus also contradicts the
ideologues who want to relativize or even destroy marriage of man and woman and
the family of the parents with their own children,” he went on to say, adding,
“I believe that today Jesus would not be condemned only because he is the
Messiah, but he would in the USA and European countries go to prison because he
spoke out the truth about marriage between a man and a woman.”
With these words, Müller reminded us of
the saying of Jesus Christ that Christians will be persecuted for His sake.
Rees-Mogg went on to question the prelate
about the papal treatment of both Bishop Joseph Strickland and Cardinal Raymond
Burke. While Müller said he does not “know more about Bishop Strickland and
Cardinal Burke than what is written in the newspapers,” “I can personally
testify that both are devout Catholics and zealous pastors.”
“Burke is the most highly-qualified
canonist in der College of Roman Cardinals,” Müller added, before remarking
that the idea that Burke and Strickland are “enemies of the Pope” only shows
“the unChristian spirit of the authors of such absurd accusations.”
On the contrary, the German prelate
proposed a dignified dialogue with Burke and Strickland instead of treating
them harshly. “Instead of taking drastic measures that only put the Church in
the negative headlines,” Müller expounded, “I propose a respectful dialogue
between men who, because of their episcopal ordination, are appointed by Christ
Himself to be shepherds of His Church and to treat each other like brothers.”
He called these conflicts “superfluous challenges and struggles.”
In his concluding remarks of the
interview, Müller relayed a Christmas message for his audience. He first quoted
Pope Leo the Great’s Christmas appeal which reads: “Christian, recognize your
dignity and consider the price at which you were redeemed from the slavery of
death, sin, depression and the prison of the meaninglessness of a life without
God.” Then, commenting on these papal words, he urged everyone “to become aware
of their own dignity and to place all their hope in life and death in the
Little Child in the manger.”
“God does not come in the glory of power
and money and renown, but in the humility of the Child, the Crucified Young Man
on Calvary and in the light of the Risen Christ on Easter morning,” continued
the cardinal. “In Christ we find the meaning and goal of our lives.”
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