One of the foremost conservative members of the College of Cardinals has castigated mass migration, spoken of the danger of “civil wars,” and called for greater recognition that “nations” and peoples have rights in an exclusive interview with europeanconservative.com. Faced with unprecedented demographic shifts, the former curial official insists that now is the time for politicians and citizens of European and Western nations to take up responsibility and “decide if they want to be marginalised in their own country.”
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller is an imposing man. The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—initially founded as the Roman Inquisition—under Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, he once occupied the arguably most powerful and influential post in the Catholic Church behind that of the papacy itself. A tall and well-built Rhinelander, he speaks slowly and carefully. Seated in front of his extensive library in his reception room, he confided frankly, giving intellectually formed answers.
It irritates Cardinal Müller that, after the politically progressive sympathies of Pope Francis, observers inside and outside of the Church mistake these stances for those of authentic Catholic belief and doctrine. Elsewhere, he has criticised an exaggerated understanding of papal infallibility, often referred to as ‘ultramontanism’ and a “cult of the personality” surrounding Pope Francis. Müller condemns this error “that says every private meaning of the Pope is a dogma or is an interpretation of the revealed truth.”
Müller says explicitly that, while under very specific, rare, and limited circumstances papal infallibility does exist for Catholics, this categorically does not extend to “his private understanding about migrants and so forth.”
“He has to defend the human rights of everybody,” he explained. “But it is another question entirely whether there should come, in ten years, millions and millions of Muslim migrants to change, totally, the culture and provoke civil wars, as happens in majority Muslim countries.”
Müller went further: “It is impossible, integration, if a big majority do not become Christian.”
“In nearly all the Muslim countries, there is an oppression of Christian communities,” he continued. “When I ask ChatGPT, and AI, it says Muslims are tolerant. The next question I ask is, can you tell me one [Muslim majority] country where Christians have the same rights? And they can say nothing.”
“There is no good answer,” he said. “In this question, it is the responsibility of the politicians and the citizens of the countries to decide if they want to be marginalised in their own country.”
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