Cardinal Müller: Transhumanism Is the Greatest Threat to a Humane Future of the World

In September 2024, a German general practitioner wrote to eleven German-speaking cardinals and bishops, as well as the conservative Cistercian abbey of Heiligenkreuz near Vienna, Austria.
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 …More