Cardinal Müller: Transhumanism Is the Greatest Threat to a Humane Future of the World
His aim was to propose a redefinition of the concept of protecting human life—one that would recognize human life from the moment an egg and sperm fuse.
The outcome:
He received evasive replies from the prelates Rainer Maria Woelki (Cologne), Bertram Meier (Augsburg), Reinhard Marx (Munich), and Rudolf Voderholzer (Regensburg), all of whom sidestepped the issue.
No reply at all came from Stephan Burger (Freiburg) and Christoph Schönborn (then still Archbishop of Vienna), from Heiligenkreuz Abbey, or from the German Bishops' Conference - which had in fact received three letters.
Bishop Stefan Oster (Passau) forwarded the letter to the German Bishops' Conference.
The then-bishop Gregor Hanke (Eichstätt) and Cardinal Gerhard Müller responded positively.
Cardinal Müller replied in April 2025 about "the protection of life in these sad times of transhumanism", according to the letter recently reviewed by Gloria.tv.
He wrote: "Indeed, this extreme anthropological concept, which reduces human beings to arbitrarily manipulable biomaterial, is the greatest threat to the inviolability of the person and thus to the humane future of the world."
Cardinal Müller fully and unreservedly shares the doctor’s views on “this enormous challenge” and thanks him for his efforts.
In the final lines of his letter, the emeritus cardinal notes that he can only forward the doctor's message for consideration to the appropriate bodies in the Curia: the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Cardinal Fernández, and the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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