ROME — German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former head of the Vatican's Doctrine Secretariat (DDF), has published a scathing article accusing Pope Francis of “sins against the Holy Spirit.”
Although he never mentioned the Pope by name, the 76-year-old cardinal nevertheless said: refer to Certain acts that only the Pope can perform.
In an apparent reference to Pope Francis, he said it was a “sin against the Holy Spirit” to remove or even ordained bishops and priests “purely at personal discretion, without going through the canonical process.” He writes that there is.
The most obvious example is Bishop Joseph Strickland, whom Francis expelled from the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, presumably for his criticism of the Pope.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller of Germany attends the Resurrection Vigil Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on April 8, 2023. (Franco Orillia/Getty Images)
Just last week, Bishop Strickland accused the U.S. bishops of “silent shepherds” of not speaking out against the “false messages” coming from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis.
Almost all of you “were silently watching as synods took place on an abominable synodality built not to protect the depositary of faith but to dismantle it,” Strickland said in a recent interview at the Vatican. he said, referring to the month-long meeting.
Cardinal Müller also focused on the concept of “synodriity” in his article, arguing that so-called “synodal churches” are “concepts that are at least partially, if not completely, inconsistent with the Catholic understanding of the Church.” claims.
“Direct divine revelation is being weaponized to make the self-relativization of the Christian church acceptable ('all religions are paths to God'),” Muller said in a statement that Pope Francis announced in September He cited and warned against comments that seemed to relativize the central message of Christianity. Salvation through Jesus Christ.
“Anyone who seeks to reconcile the teachings of the Church with the ideologies hostile to revelation and the tyranny of relativism by appealing to individual and collective inspiration from the Holy Spirit, in many ways Muller writes, alluding to the words of Jesus (Matthew 12:31, Mark 3:29, Luke 12:10).
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The Church maintains that “the person of Jesus Christ is the full truth of God in an insurmountable 'newness' for all people,” Muller added, quoting St. Peter. Ta. The kingdom of heaven is given among men, so that we may be saved” (Acts 4:12).
The most recent sin against the Holy Spirit is that “Christian supernaturalism is used to subjugate the Church of the Triune God to the goals and purposes of a secular salvation project, whether it be an eco-socialist climate neutrality agenda or an eco-socialist climate neutrality agenda.” It is time to deny the origin and nature of 2030 for the 'globalist elite','' Muller said.
