[Catholic Caucus] Müller Refutes Francis: "Lack of Synodality and Church Doctrine Are Not Sins"

Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented on September 21 on the announced "penitential liturgy" with Francis in the midst of the October ex-synod.

He criticizes that new, man-made sins are being invented.

Francis' list includes an alleged "sin" of using doctrine as a stumbling block and a "sin against synodality", that is, the lack of listening and communion.

For Cardinal Müller, this "catalogue of alleged sins" against the doctrine of the Church, misused as a weapon, or "sins" against synodality ("whatever one may understand by it") reads like a checklist of the gender ideology.

But: "There is no such sin as using the teaching of the Church as a weapon, because the teaching of the apostles says that salvation is to be found in none other than the name of Christ."

And: "Nor is there any sin against synodality."

Such a "sin" is used as a "means of brainwashing to discredit the so-called conservatives as yesterday's people and Pharisees in disguise".

According to Cardinal Müller, the agenda of the ex-synod amounts to the destruction of Christian anthropology. It will be stubbornly pursued until the last person turns out the light and the church coffers are empty.

In an aside, Müller criticises Francis' meeting with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, without mentioning names.

Müller writes about "billionaire oligarchs or ‘philanthropists’ who first shamelessly exploit the broad masses of the people in order to then be celebrated as their benefactors with a few handouts".

And: "Francis and the bishops should not allow themselves to be photographed together with such people (for Judas wages)".