CARDINAL MULLER
Müller, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News in the prelude to U.S. presidential elections, in which he particularly underscored the importance of the abortion issue and China’s aspirations for world dominance.
“The outcome of the U.S. election will determine whether the U.S. remains the leading power in the world — for freedom and democracy — or whether a communist dictatorship will assume that role for the global community,” Cardinal Müller said.
“American Catholics, Christians of other denominations, and all people of faith must render an account to God over whom they make commander of the flagship of the free world,” the cardinal said. “The world is looking to America because this fateful election will determine the future of democracy and human rights for decades to come.”
“The rivalry between the U.S. and Communist China is not a sporting competition for the first or second place of superpowers,” the cardinal insisted. “It is about the irreconcilable alternatives of democracy or dictatorship.”
“China has no diversity of political parties, no free parliament, and no democratically elected and therefore legitimate government,” Müller said, before proceeding to catalog some of the more egregious human rights violations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“No government has the right to arbitrarily arrest and even torture its citizens, to brainwash them, to hold them in concentration camps, to murder them, to harvest their organs like spare parts and sell them on the world market,” he said, in reference to well-documented CCP practices on Falun Gong practitioners, Uighur Muslims, and others….
“The free world owes the American people the salvation of Western civilization, which has its foundation in the freedom and dignity of every person,” he said, but this legacy is “now being challenged.”
“On the domestic level, what is most at stake in the upcoming election is the lives of the unborn, as well as of the elderly and sick, in the fight against those who would promote abortion and euthanasia,” the cardinal declared.
“Certain issues can be legitimately debated, like the border wall with Mexico,” he said, “but not the lives of unborn children, without being complicit in their murder.”
“In this crucial election, it is vital that voters evaluate the candidates based on their willingness to do the right thing while in office,” he said, “and according to Catholic teaching, not all issues have the same weight.”
The above comes from an Oct. 1 story on Breitbart News.
ARCHBISHOP VIGANO
….As a Catholic and as a bishop [Vigano was former papal nuncio to the U.S.], how do you judge what Trump has done?
I limit myself to observing what Trump has done during his term as President. He has defended the life of the unborn, cutting funding from the abortion multinational, Planned Parenthood, and just in recent days he has issued an executive order that requires immediate care for newborns who are not killed by abortion: up until now they were allowed to die or they were exploited by harvesting their organs and selling them.
Trump is fighting pedophilia and pedosatanism. He has not started any new war and he has drastically reduced the existing ones by obtaining peace agreements. He has restored God’s right of citizenship, after Obama had even gone so far as to cancel Christmas and impose measures that were repugnant to the religious soul of Americans.
And I also observe the media war that has been waged by the press and the centers of power against the President: he has been demonized since 2016, despite the fact that he democratically obtained a majority of votes. It is well understood that the hatred against Trump – which is not dissimilar to what happens in Italy in the face of much softer members of the opposition – finds its real motivation in the awareness of his fundamental role in the battle against the Deep State and all of its internal and external ramifications.
His courageous denunciation of Communism – of which Antifa and BLM are the global versions while the Chinese dictatorship is the incubator – serves in some measure to remedy the silence of the Church, which despite the heartfelt appeals of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima and La Salette has preferred not to renew its condemnation of this infernal ideology.
And if Bishop Sanchez Sorondo can declare with impunity, against all the evidence, that China is the best implementer of the social doctrine of the Church, we can rejoice over the words of the President of the United States and the no less courageous words of his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo….
Did you organize a Rosary for Trump, and, if so, why?
I was urged by many people to launch this initiative, and I did not hesitate to join it, becoming the promoter of this spiritual crusade. This is a war without quarter, in which Satan has been unchained and the gates of hell are trying in every way to prevail over the Church herself. Such a contradiction must be faced above all with prayer, with the invincible weapon of the Holy Rosary….
The above comes from an interview with the Italian daily Il Giornale, via an Oct. 1 story in LifeSiteNews.
Foreigners should stop meddling in US elections PERIOD. It’s not your country, it’s not your fight. It is also a violation of the law.
So, you oppose undocumented immigrants entering the country, driving and voting, correct? As you say, “It is also a violation of the law.”
(Archbishop Vigano lived in Washington DC, legally, for a number of years.)
Was Pope Francis wrong to criticize President Trump?
Of course I do. That’s exactly the point.
As to the Holy Father, unike either Muller or Vigano, at least he has pastoral authority over the universal Church. Vigano and Muller don’t even have canonical authority over a diocese or even a parish, let alone an American one.
The Magisterium is not the Pope…It is the Pope in communion with the bishops of the world, which Vigano and Muller are two. As such they have world wide teaching authority.
Thank you.
Let them speak, even if you want to muzzle them along with any voice not as radical as yours. So much for your tolerance or appreciation of free speech.
YFC,
I think it’s okay for foreigners to voice opinions about an American election. What is not okay is when foreigners do it secretly, typically using proxies.
Unfortunately, foreign governments have been doing it fairly consistently at least as far back as the 1930s with the group, American First. America First, as you’ll recall, was a front group of Communist and Fascists who were trying to keep the United States out of World War II.
Oh no the Leftist is upset someone is espousing an opinion he disagrees with.
>>>Foreigners should stop meddling….
They are not politicians. There is no bribery or backroom deals here.
There is no Quid pro Quo here, except for the good of your soul.
This Cardinal and Archbishop are men of sanctity and wisdom.
They are teaching about the moral priorities and warning about the
the danger to the future of the USA and democracy.
They have seen how other countries have tumbled
and now see the US at risk. (abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, pedophilia, destruction of the family, communism )
Often, its helpful to hear from the Wise who live outside the US
and to read the (internet) newspapers of other countries
to learn of things that are not reported to us because of our biased news medias.
Interesting in today’s Washington Post is a statement by a group called Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden, who consider the Democrats as having “a biblically balanced agenda” though they disagree on abortion rights, stating the current administration is “the opposite of pro-life.”
Trotting out “the seamless garment” argument again.-
Where climate change and social problems are give equal moral weight as abortion.
They obscure the truth and priorities with “biblically balanced” temporal emotional agendas.
They want to occupy the “Pro-Life” banner and claim it for their own.
This is what Cardinal Muller and Archbishop Vigano was warning against.
(and the direction that the democrats were taking toward Communism, pedophilia, etc
The Democrats try to imply that under Trump, social problems weren’t addressed
And to a great extent they were..
The Washington Post is very liberal like the NYT
Why say It’s “Interesting” ? If you have a point, make it .
Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden? You can’t be pro-life and support the dismemberment of the least among us. The abortion issue is a preeminent priority because it does three things: attacks Life itself; takes place in the sanctity of the family and thirdly it destroys multiple lives. If this group thinks Biden’s positions on killing, sodomy and religious liberty are a biblically balance agenda they are deceiving themselves. Or maybe their use of deceptive language is part of their agenda to cover-up the truth.
Since when is expressing an opinion considered meddling. I suppose that there were Germans who complained about “foreigners” meddling when they spoke out against Hitler when he gained power in Germany.
It would be good for all of us if we used politically charged labels as much as possible. The Democratic Party is no more “communist” than the Republican Party is “facist.” We throw those accusations around too easily. One party does tend to be more liberal than the other today, but I can remember when they were just the opposite, the Democrats were conservative and the Republicans more liberal. Let’s stick to the issues that we face as a nation and ask ourselves which party proposes the best solutions, and let us vote on them.
The Democrat party today is controlled by a fanatical base of Leftist whose shock troops who have burning cities to the ground.
bohemond, please name one city that has been burned to the ground. Looting, rioting, and fires, yes. But no city has been burned to the ground. Generally, when I hear “fanatical base of Leftist” I hear “not white” or I want the country to be like it was when “we” were in control and could keep the poor and the non-whites on the other side of the tracks. “Out of many one” is our national motto. We need to grow the nation to be more one, don’t you think?
Anon- The same terrorist chanting black lives matter are the same ones who ran gulags and secret police in place like Eastern Europe and still in Cuba.
In Minnesota alone over 360 businesses have been vandalized, looted or had their windows smashed or broken. What about the rest of the country. Too numerous to mention. As for the “not white” you hear I believe it’s what you’ve been brainwashed to believe. Remember it’s the radical Left Plantation which won’t allow Blacks to advance (welfare, school choice, Democrat cities) and keep them down.
If Vigano were so brave he’d come out of hiding instead of throwing red meat to trads from his hiding place every month or so to build up a cult around him. Sorry, but I don’t pay any attention to anything he says anymore. The people I know who hang on every word Vigano says also believe that Benedict is still the real pope. That tells you a lot.
Now, now, everyone. Calm down!!
God bless Cardinal Muller. He is one of the good German prelates.
As far as foreigners, “Americans” were all foreigners, except the native tribes, until some of the native tribes fought with us against the British along with that foreigner Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette.
Whew! leave it up to the French to go overboard on long names.
St. Therese pray for us. Oops! another “foreigner”.
From today’s news: “A new papal encyclical is expected out as soon as today, with word that the document offers a sharp critique of populism, immigration controls, and other politically charged topics.”
Nothing political or trying to influence American elections by the timing of this from the Pope?!
Really?!
I looked at the list of evangelicals signing on for Mr. Biden. It’s a short list of mostly former evangelical leaders, including some who are members of a pro-abortion denomination. Biden continues to pander for the votes of Christians because his staff knows he does not have the support of most Christians.
Fr. Mark Goring CC addresses Biden’s latest “Catholic” ads, which tout his “Catholic faith” while ignoring his publicly stated public policy positions, at
https://youtu.be/82HtffSF1EA
As Archbishop Chaput notes, “The new anti-Catholic prejudice targets not baptism, but belief. If you were baptized and identify yourself as a Catholic, that can still be acceptable as long as you don’t publicly affirm or live out the Church’s teachings — or your baptismal promises.”
The LifeSiteNews link does not work.
Thanks. Fixed now
Breitbart news is part of the facist right wing “big lie” media machinery. It spreads falsehoods and is unchristian.
Yes, any one who doesn’t bow to the Leftist MSM deep state media is a fascist.
And what do you call the “fake news”?
Bravo Cardinal Muller! “The free world owes the American people the salvation of Western civilization, which has its foundation in the freedom and dignity of every person,” he said, but this legacy is “now being challenged.”
Vigano and Muller are showing us where all the skeletons are closeted.
Pope Francis is also very concerned about the election and…COVID19.
unless foreigners are over here stuffing ballot boxes
(digitally or physically) – the assertion that foreign countries
“interfere” with US elections is to say the US electorate is
comprised substantially of morons
which could be true, sadly
The United States has become Balkanized. We have so many groups over here that it is impossible to satisfy them all. Everyone complains about it, at least privately to others, even though they might push diversity officially.
Now it seems, afraid of offending anyone, they teach nothing in the history classes. I was shocked that some younger citizens on here did not even know that the Americas were named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. In the 1950’s every public school student knew that, even if they did not like what he did.