Cardinal Müller Calls an Archbishop "Another Example of Disastrous Theological Formation"
He criticises that priests were punished for celebrating Mass with a few people by their bishops, “This means they conceive themselves as state officials.”
Müller reminds that “our Supreme Pastor is Jesus Christ, not [the Italian Prime Minister] Giuseppe Conte." And, “The State has its task, but the Church has her own.”
Exceptional circumstances like a prison may allow for live-streamed Masses, Müller concedes, however, “We are not Platonic idealists, we cannot follow mass from home.”
He criticises La Plata Archbishop Victor Fernández by name - “who prides himself of being Francis’ ghost writer” - for his claim that Sunday obligation could be abolished, “This is another example of a disastrous theological formation.”
Accusations of some bishops that their faithful are "too attached" to the Eucharist are for Müller "absurd."
He observes that the bishops at the Amazon Synod insisted on an absolute need of the Eucharist which would require married priests, “Now the same people shamelessly argue the exact opposite, that we don't even need the Eucharist.”
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