Gerhard Cardinal Müller has warned the current Synod on Synodality could be used by “progressives” and “anti-Catholic forces” to implement Agenda 2030 into the Church.
“There is always a danger that self-proclaimed progressives, in collusion with anti-Catholic forces in politics and the media, will introduce into the Church Agenda 2030, the core of which is a Wokist vision of humanity diametrically opposed to the divine dignity of every human person,” the German cardinal stated in an interview with InfoVaticana.
Müller – the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) – is part of the multi-year Synod on Synodality’s meetings in Rome, an inclusion which shocked many, including him. With the culminating month-long event taking place in Rome this October, Müller opined on why he is part of the left-leaning event.
“The reason given was that more theological expertise was needed,” he said.
The cardinal has been an outspoken critic of the Synod, and as such his inclusion in the Vatican meetings was protested by progressives: “Heretical groups disguised as progressives, for their part, criticized this decision [his inclusion] as a mere tactical maneuver by the Pope, who wanted to send a signal to orthodox Catholics, maligned as conservative or even traditionalists, that the participants were balanced.”
Synod – a move for Agenda 2030?
Commenting to this correspondent in March about the Synod, Müller warned that there is a move to have “a reduction of the Church not to be the instrument and the sign, the sacrament for the deep communion of us with God in love, and to be the instrument for the unity of the mankind in Jesus Christ: they want to change the Church to another worldly health organization like an NGO.”
While he told InfoVaticana that last October’s Synod meeting “could have been worse,” Müller nevertheless repeated his warning about the event.
“There is always a danger that self-proclaimed progressives, in collusion with anti-Catholic forces in politics and the media, will introduce into the Church Agenda 2030, the core of which is a Wokist vision of humanity diametrically opposed to the divine dignity of every human person,” he said.
They consider themselves progressives and believe they have successfully done a service to the Church when the Catholic Church is praised by this false side for selling our birthright to the Gospel of Christ for the lentils of applause at the ecomarxist ideologues in the UN and the EU.
Due to the Synod’s inclusion of laity as voting members, a number of clerics and theologians have commented that the Synod is no longer truly a synod of bishops, and that the office is being misused by the Vatican. Müller has also warned of this, adding now that the synod should not “resemble a party conference in an authoritarian system, in which everyone is closely watched and controlled to speak according to the wishes of the authorities and in which the only real ruler then decides as he sees fit.”
With many emerging aspects from the Synod appearing to contradict Catholic teaching – such as a push for female deacons – and an accompanying Vatican emphasis on “climate change” issues, Müller protested at the Church losing its direction:
We cannot sanction one legitimate opinion in favor of another with spiritual punishments in matters of climate change, compulsory vaccination and immigration. Just as ecclesiastical authority cannot institute new sacraments, neither can it invent new mortal sins. Certainly, one cannot seriously threaten with hellish punishments those who have a different opinion on climate change than the majority.
Error does not command equality
Among the more controversial appointments to the Synod is American Jesuit Father James Martin. Both during and after last October’s meeting, Martin has continued his advocacy for LGBT ideology and arguing that such acceptance of LGBT issues should come via the Synod on Synodality.
Müller has condemned Martin’s LGBT work as pushing “heresy,” and has decried the Jesuit’s inclusion in the Synod:
Certainly, in the Church there is a legitimate diversity of opinions on questions that do not refer to the truth of revelation, but to concrete affirmations on pastoral care, the organization of Catholic universities, etcetera. It is clear that heretical positions should not be recognized with equal rights, because they undermine the foundation of the Church in her profession of faith.
He also attested that left-leaning voices in the Church portray “representatives of the Catholic faith” as “Pharisees and hypocrites, as cold-hearted literalists, as traditionalists in love with the past orspiritually obstinate indiestrists.”
The trick is to contrast the heterodox position as pastorally more sensitive with the orthodox position. The orthodox faith is not questioned. But representatives of the Catholic faith are psychologized as Pharisees and hypocrites, as cold-hearted literalists, as traditionalists in love with the past or spiritually obstinate indiestrists. At this intellectual level, it is easy to organize a close alliance with the Church-critical media and the ideologues of socialist-capitalist globalism.
But the former CDF prefect noted that the Synod is not causing division, as “division already exists.” He urged the Synod to instead “offer the opportunity to make visible the unity of the Church.”
LGBT issues hasten ecclesial ‘decline’
Müller’s forthright appraisals have not been limited to the Synod. In recent months the cardinal has issued a number of critiques of the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans document on same-sex “blessings,” including previously stating that it “leads to heresy.”
Returning to the highly controversial document, Müller responded to the suggestion that the Vatican had released it outside of the Synod in order not to “monopolize” the Synod conversation.
“You may pat yourself on the back for your tactical games. But it’s about the truth,” he said.
“Pastoral care for people with problems in their orientation toward the opposite sex, which the Creator’s own Logos has written into our nature, cannot be to the detriment of the truth of the sacrament of marriage nor of the blessing, which is the promise of God’s grace to do good and avoid sin.”
Should activists attempt to push through their campaigns for female deacons or LGBT issues at the upcoming October meetings, Müller warned that this would only “lead to the further decline of the church, because these objectives are dogmatically inconsistent or betray any spiritual depth.”
With a number of key figures having vociferously campaigned for female deacons and LGBT acceptance in the intervening months between last October and this year’s upcoming meeting, it remains to be seen what direction the Synod will now take.