The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church – to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller Jan. 1.
“The crisis in the Church is man-made and has arisen because we have cozily adapted ourselves to the spirit of a life without God,” the cardinal told thousands of Catholics gathered in Phoenix for the 2020 Student Leadership Summit hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
“The poison paralyzing the Church is the opinion that we should adapt to the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, and not the spirit of God, that we should relativize God’s commandments and reinterpret the doctrine of the revealed faith,” he said.
He cautioned that even a number of people in the Church are “longing” for a kind of Catholicism without dogmas, without sacraments, and without an infallible magisterium.
Mueller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, celebrated Mass Jan. 1 for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. In his homily, he reflected on the human desire to embrace substitute gratifications when God is set aside.
“But the one who believes needs no ideology,” he said. “The one who hopes will not reach for drugs. The one who loves is not after the lust of this world, which passes along with the world. The one who loves God and his neighbor finds happiness in the sacrifice of self-giving….”
The above comes from a Jan. 1 story on the site of Catholic News Agency.
The “Catholic Church” without dogmas is not Catholic.
Cardinal Mueller is excellent! However, the Church really needs to ask for religious discipline, and faithfulness to Christ’s holy teachings, of all her believers, clergy and laity! As in sports, music, science, and all other fields– we need good, daily religious and moral teaching, practice, and discipline — or all is lost! That’s what it takes! Good, daily teaching, practice, and discipline, to learn and to master anything! We must “enter by the Narrow Gate”– Christ, our Lord and Divine Master, awaits us!
The fifty plus years of abusing Christ and the sacrifice He willingly accepted for our redemption by the way we act in church since Vatican II has led Catholics to become more protestant than the protestants, thus as the good cardinal has stated we have aligned with the world by relitivizing the very solemn and sacrificial action of Christ’s offering and turning it into a social party. It’s a total slap-in-the-face to all those who mourned below the cross on the day He died, especially a slap to His holy mother, the Blessed Virgin. We continue to break the immaculate heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Mueller for next pope please or Cardinal Sarah for pope.
Cardinal Mueller is very excellent! I see the real problem in our post-Conciliar Church of today, is that we basically lack good, faithful, disciplined, manly, mature practicing Catholics, in our Church leadership!