"A woman cannot be ordained a priest. It is sacramentally impossible," Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told Kath.ch (7 June).
He
explained that Christ called only men to be apostles and that the
priest, in his masculinity, represents Christ, the bridegroom of the
Church, which is his bride.
When women claim to have a
"vocation", it is "a mistake", the Cardinal explained: "Women are not
called to the sacred orders. This is pure subjectivism". Christ
instituted this sacrament only for men and doesn't contradict himself.
Cardinal Müller also called the abuse hoax an "ideology" based on anti-church prejudice: "Statistically, 95% of child abuse [Austrian figures:
99.7%] occurs in the area of family and youth education, which has
nothing to do with the hierarchical-sacramental constitution of the
Church and the celibacy of priests".
The Cardinal warns against
placing priests under general suspicion. "It is typical of old and new
Marxist ideologies that it is not the individual who is guilty of his
actions, but the collective to which he belongs". Cardinal Müller called
this "an appeal to the emotions".
He also pointed out that "we
cannot remain insensitive to those who are innocently accused and caught
up in the wheels of justice".
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