Cardinal Müller Warns Against Submitting Church to Ideological Leaders

"The root of evil is not 'clericalism', whatever that may be, but the rejection of truth and moral licentiousness," said Cardinal Gerhard Müller in a homily at a clergy conference in Rome on January 14.

He added that the corruption of sound doctrine leads to the corruption of morality.

True reform, he said, is "not the secularisation of the Church and her submission of her leaders to woke ideology", but the sanctification of the pope and the clergy.

The Church is "not a mundane agency for world-improvement" and the priest "not the functionary of a socio-religious movement of some romantic or revolutionary character".

"We should not consider ourselves important on secondary issues and carry out the agenda of others who do not want to believe that God alone is the origin and the solitary goal of man and of the whole of creation."

And, "The real danger for humanity today consists in the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the trans-humanist decay of morality, when no one any longer knows or teaches the difference between good and evil."

Cardinal Müller warns against [Francis'] idea that the Christian dogma is no longer the ground and criterion of morality and no longer pastoral:
"The Christological heresy consists in setting Christ the teacher of divine truth and Christ the good shepherd in opposition to one another."

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