Cardinal Müller Attacks FSSPX and Roman Curia
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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