Cardinal Gerhard Müller has spoken out on the Synod on Synodality report referring to the so-called «emerging issues,» denouncing that certain ecclesial sectors are using the synodal process to introduce gender ideology into the Church and to relativize Catholic doctrine on marriage.
In an extensive text disseminated by his office and published by Per Mariam, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith accuses some bishops, theologians, and pastoral leaders of promoting a «world-accommodated Christianization» and of replacing divine revelation with contemporary ideological categories.
According to the cardinal, the report reflects a theological drift that seeks to progressively weaken Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. In his view, the issue is no longer presented indirectly or ambiguously, but openly.
“The heretical relativization of natural and sacramental marriage is publicly welcomed,” states Müller, who considers that some ecclesial sectors are using pastoral language to erode fundamental doctrines of the Church.
In that line, he argues that the promotion of blessings for homosexual couples or irregular unions does not constitute a merely disciplinary matter, but a profound alteration of Christian anthropology and the Catholic understanding of marriage.
“All this is presented as the first step toward the recognition of LGBT ideology,” he writes, denouncing that said ideology proposes “a materialistic view of the human being without God, creator and redeemer”.
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