‘Traditionis Custodes’ Was Applied with Crude Authoritarianism – Cardinal Müller
- The distinction between ‘conservative’ and ‘progressive’ is un-Catholic and has no place in the Church of God.
- The Second Vatican Council did not speak of the liturgy as if it were outdated and in need of modernization.
- The Novus Ordo was introduced too abruptly and without sufficient explanation.
- Liturgical abuses—self-display instead of the worship of God—provoked a reaction that saw strict adherence to the 1962 Missal as a safeguard of Catholic truth.
- With 'Traditionis custodes', one attempted to enforce external uniformity through crude authoritarianism, without theological or liturgical sensitivity.
- The Pope has authority over the rites, but this must be exercised in harmony with Catholic doctrine and respect for legitimate traditions.
- Woke and gender ideology arise from a materialist worldview and stand in direct contradiction to revealed Christian anthropology.
- Sexual diversity exists only in the intellectual simplicity of its inventors.
- Eroticism and sexuality must be integrated into personal love, or they become destructive of self and others.
- A bishop must possess sound theological criteria to distinguish good from evil and what builds up from what destroys.
- The Church’s decline cannot be reversed by continuing the failed progressivism of the 1970s, but only by a clear witness to the truth of the Gospel.
- Committees without faith, structural reforms without concern for souls, and synods without missionary zeal lead only to disillusionment and inner emigration.
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