In a new interview with the Catholic Austrian website kath.net, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Vatican’s former doctrine head, made it clear that he fears manipulation is being practiced regarding the upcoming October 4 to 29 Synod of Bishops on Synodality, and he calls for “greatest possible transparency.” He points especially to the danger of an attack on God-given marriage between a man and a woman. The German cardinal sees the danger of “relativizing and thus destroying the natural and sacramental marriage of man and woman.”
“A fictitious ‘blessing’ of same-sex couples,” he expounded, “is not only a blasphemy against the Creator of the world and man, but also a grave sin against the salvation of the people concerned, who are led to believe that sexual activity outside of marriage is pleasing to God, which is described in the revealed Word of God as a grave sin against the sixth commandment (Rom 1:26f; 1 Cor 9:-11).” Read more…