Catholic Church threatens to split?
Catholic Church threatened schism and 1517, but now the issues of marriage and sexuality, warned Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, the prefect of the Vatican curial influential Congregation for the study of religion.
Speaking in Regensburg at the regular session of the Diocesan Synod dedicated to the family, Cardinal Muller was particularly critical of the bishops his home country of Germany, criticizing them for trying to take a leadership role in the ethical definition of family and marriage, while their views in Germany caused a mass resignation from the Catholic Church.
"We must not be fooled when it comes to the sacramental nature of marriage, its indissolubility, its openness to children, and the fundamental complementarity of the sexes. Pastoral assistance must have in mind eternal salvation. No need to adjust the Declaration of the world, but to win the world for Christ, "the cardinal concluded.
It is particularly outrageous that those "who are faithful to the Church's doctrine denigrate" to oppose the Pope, as the Pope and the bishops who are in communion with him "were not witnesses of revealed truth".
Muller believes that it is possible to be in doubt in the church schisms and 1517, at the time when Martin Luther started the reform of its theses, finished separating Protestants from the Catholic Church.
By the way, the Holy See last month put forward a positive judgment on the decision of the Roman municipal councils to a square in Rome this month that the name of Martin Luther.
- 5 Sep, 2015
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