Criticism of the church by cardinal muller

Criticism of the church by cardinal muller

Cardinal Muller © Lena Klimkeit

Cardinal Muller took ie with Pope Francis' conduct of office: It should not be that "the universal church is run according to the rules of the Jesuit order," he told Der Spiegel magazine. He had a lot to criticize not only about the Pope.

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller criticizes Pope Francis' conduct in office while attesting to his orthodoxy. Francis, for example, makes personnel decisions "dependent on inductees and their often ignoble motives," the former head of the Vatican's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith told "Der Spiegel" magazine.

Asked if Francis was a heretic, the cardinal replied, "No. This pope is orthodox, that is, orthodox in the Catholic sense of the word." But his task, he said, was to unify the church. "And it would be dangerous if he succumbed to the temptation to play off that group, which boasts of its progressivism, against the rest of the Church".

Spiritual community or business enterprise?

Nor should it be the case that "the Church as a whole is run according to the rules of the Jesuit order," Muller added, referring to the religious order to which Francis belongs. Each person has his or her own life experiences; however, they must be balanced by advisors, especially through exchange in the College of Cardinals, with the bishops and theologians of the universal church.

Muller, who was Bishop of Regensburg from 2002 to 2012, also criticized the Council of Cardinals. The papal advisory council has become "an exclusive circle in which the idea of management seems to dominate"."However, the church is a spiritual community that cannot be organized like a business enterprise.

Distrust and intrigue in the Vatican

Muller criticized at the same time that there is an arbitrary treatment of personnel in the Vatican. There is no protection against dismissal and no staff council. Anyone can be dismissed without giving reasons. Francis, he said, was unfortunately surrounded by people who did not want to give up their courtier mentality.

Today, there are "court ruffians" in the Vatican who regard every word of Pope Francis as sacrosanct. "Anyone who doesn't fit into their line, they accuse of plotting against the pope," said Muller, whose term at the head of the faith authority Pope Francis had not extended.

"Clericalism is the reason for abuse"

Looking ahead to next week's anti-abuse summit at the Vatican, the cardinal disagreed with the thesis that one cause of sexual abuse is clericalism. There is no empirical evidence of this, he said. The cause lies in the depraved character of the perpetrators. "However, there have been cases in the past where spiritual authority became political power."

On the case of U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was dismissed from the priesthood on Saturday, Muller said he had personally known nothing about it. He reiterated his thesis of a link between abuse and homosexuality.

Well over 80 percent of victims of sexual abuse of young people are male, he said. "At the abuse summit that begins on Thursday, however, these data should unreasonably play no role," criticized the theologian. "By the way, I am of the opinion that no human being is born as a homosexual by God's will, we are born as a man or a woman."

Hidden allusion to Cardinal Marx?

Asked why Francis, unlike Benedict XVI. Muller said that the "bogotas" were so popular in Germany: "That says a lot about the sad state of mind in our homeland." Germany had once been a theological leader.

The fact that it is currently Germans, of all people, who "want to sit at the head of the train in this complete slide and play the locomotive for the world church" is more than curious. The former theology professor did not name names. Asked if he was alluding to Cardinal Reinhard Marx, he said, "I am not alluding to persons, but to unpleasant facts."

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