Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller spoke to
kath.net on May 26 about the episcopal consecrations on July 1 by the
Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X. Main quotes..
No sympathy for the FSSPX
“They
understand themselves as an emergency community that will remain at a
distance until the millions of Catholics who have fallen into Modernism,
thousands of bishops and priests, and the current Pope return to the
Church which the Society of St. Pius X preserves as the holy remnant of
the one true Catholic Church.”
Can the Entire Church Have Fallen Into Error?
“From
a purely human and theological perspective, it cannot be the case that
the two thousand bishops and all the popes who have gathered at the
Council have been mistaken on dogmatic issues or have deviated from the
apostolic tradition, with the exception of a single bishop who, through
illegal episcopal ordinations alone, ensures the Church’s continued
existence”
No one has a right to become a bishop
“Nobody
has a claim to episcopal consecration, which belongs to the Church and
not to individual groups, in order to guarantee the survival of their
humanly constructed organization.”
Unauthorized consecrations are only justified under persecution
“Only
in a condition of extreme persecution, when contact with the universal
Church and with Rome is completely impossible, would the consecration of
a bishop be morally justified before God.”
Accusation of Pride
“The
Pope will always go to the limits of possibility in preserving or
restoring unity, while those who have gone astray, in their spiritual
arrogance, use this as an opportunity to impose conditions.”
Officials in the Roman Curia “authoritarian hardliners”
“On
both sides—and, unfortunately, also among the authoritarian agitators
in the Roman dicastery for liturgical affairs—the theological
distinction between the substance of the sacraments and their various
liturgical forms is not properly appreciated.”
'Traditionis custodes' dogmatically untenable
“Merely
suppressing the old rite through disciplinary measures and generally
suspecting its adherents of denying the Second Vatican Council is not
only pastorally questionable but also dogmatically untenable.”
“Not a Supporter of the Roman Rite”
“I
myself have considered the restriction on the celebration of Mass in
the old rite to be very unwise from a pastoral standpoint, not because I
am a supporter of the old liturgy myself, but because as a Catholic—and
especially as a theologian—one must also acknowledge the spiritual
richness of the older rite, and there is no right to haughtily set
oneself above one’s friends.
Athanasius comparison against the FSSPX
“An
Athanasius or an Augustine did not distance themselves from the Church
as long as Arianism and Donatism had not yet been definitively
overcome.”
Comparing FSSPX to Martin Luther
“The
Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X would have to explain the difference
between its own position and Luther’s statement during the Leipzig
Disputation: ‘Even councils can err!’”
On homosex „blessings“
“All
orthodox Catholics rightly say that the supposed blessings of homosex
couples or couples living in other irregular relationships are
objectively sinful.”
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