Sunday, June 30, 2013

Archbishop Müller Condemns Pastors' Initiative -- Defends the Right of a Child to a Mother and Father

(Augsburg) Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the Prefect for the Congregation of Doctrine and the Faith sharply criticized the Pastor Initiative , an Austrian association of rebel priests. "The Call to Disobedience is against the truth of faith and canonical disobedience that has slandered ecclesiastical obedience as blind obedience and puts it at odds with the ripeness and maturity in faith, contradicts the ministry of the priest," said Müller to the Augsburger Allgemeine . The former Bishop of Regensburg referred to the decree on the Life and Ministry of the priest, where he mentions the joy of "high calling" which addresses the preachers of the gospel of Christ and ministers of the sacraments.

During the same interview Curia Archbishop Müller emphasized the inalienable right of a child to his own father and his own mother as a "fundamental human right". Although this human right can not be always achieved, perhaps because a parent dies, "or other fatal conditions," it should not "be thwarted." The human right is violated when "the marital union of man and woman has an equal footing with other forms of cohabitation, so that their being is deprived and discriminated against."

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good news again from the Archbishop. Cross your fingers.

Genty said...

The answer is to deprive dissident priests of their ministries. But it can't be done, can it, because of the crisis in vocations. And who's responsible? The princes of the Catholic Church, that's who. So it's like firing popcorn at a rebel army.

Anonymous said...

Well, he got one right this time. I'm sure he is being prayed for by many people besides just me.

Tancred said...

I'm not catching everything lately he's been saying. It all looks pretty good. Perhaps a miracle, perhaps he wants to keep his job, maybe a combination of things like that?

He hasn't been speaking out of turn lately, either.

Anonymous said...

Yes maybe it's a miracle or a miracle of sorts. He is getting older and is feeling time upon himself and desires to make things right. Pray it is so.

susan said...

How funny...there was a day when a Catholic prelate saying this wouldn't have been news.

Elizabeth said...

And where are the words such as these coming from the Vicar of Christ, pray tell? Good Lord, this is becoming scandalous that the Pope has not uttered one word about the abomination sweeping the world. Or did I miss it?