Catholics Have No Obligation to Follow Francis’ Green-Left Agenda - Cardinal Müller
Catholics are not obliged to follow Pope Francis’s green-left agenda in opposing fossil fuels and favouring agreements on environmental issues, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has told The Weekend Australian (July 27).
Müller is in Sydney to address the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy conference. "We are not a green party", he added,
"Environmental policy is nothing to do with faith and morals. Those issues are for politicians and for people to vote for the party they agree with."
“Bishops are not scientists, environmental experts or politicians." Müller recommended that Church leaders should concentrate on religion.
Pope Must Fight «Schism»
Müller explained that Francis and the bishops needed "to provide the clearness, based on the word of God" to heal the "schism" between the "conservative" and the "progressive" in the Church.
False understandings of theology were causing doctrinal confusion.
But …

Medjugorje Bans Communion In The Hand
Archbishop Henryk Hoser, 76, the Pontifical Delegate for the shrine of Medjugorje, Bosnia, has forbidden Communion in the hand, writes the known Italian journalist David Murgia on his blog IlSegnoDiGiona.com (July 8).
Murgia recounts that the priest responsible for the Italian pilgrims told the faithful during the official 8 July Italian afternoon mass: "By the disposition of the pontifical delegate, of today it will only be possible to receive communion in the mouth. And no longer on the hands."
According to Murgia, the news was confirmed by other sources. The measure was taken to prevent the theft of consecrated hosts which are sold for up to 500 euros, he writes.
Murgia conducts a weekly show on the Italian Bishops' TV2000.
Picture: Henryk Hoser, © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsVghkxtmtlb

Medjugorje Bans Communion In The Hand
Archbishop Henryk Hoser, 76, the Pontifical Delegate for the shrine of Medjugorje, Bosnia, has forbidden Communion in the hand, writes the known Italian journalist David Murgia on his blog IlSegnoDiGiona.com (July 8).
Murgia recounts that the priest responsible for the Italian pilgrims told the faithful during the official 8 July Italian afternoon mass: "By the disposition of the pontifical delegate, of today it will only be possible to receive communion in the mouth. And no longer on the hands."
According to Murgia, the news was confirmed by other sources. The measure was taken to prevent the theft of consecrated hosts which are sold for up to 500 euros, he writes.
Murgia conducts a weekly show on the Italian Bishops' TV2000.
Picture: Henryk Hoser, © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsVghkxtmtlb

Bishop Hails Martin Luther as “Mystic of Grace”
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron writes on aleteia.org, that Alec Ryrie's book “Protestants” caused him to look differently at Martin Luther, “for at the core of Luther’s life and theology was an overwhelming experience of grace". He calls Luther’s “religious movement” a “love affair”. And, “Luther was a mystic of grace, someone who had fallen completely in love.”
In realty Luther was a drunkard, who called the Mass “the greatest and most terrible abomination” of all “papal idolatries” (Schmalkald Articles).
He said things like:
“Christ committed adultery first of all with the women at the well about whom St John tell’s us. Was not everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died.” (Tischreden, Weimarer Edition, Vol. …