New head of CDF hopes to reduce tensions in the Church-( Perhaps he will start by resigning! )

[Dawn Marie]

New head of CDF hopes to reduce tensions in the Church

 

Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), says he sees the polarization between traditionalists and progressives as the most important challenge faced by the Church.

 

In an interview with Vatican Radio’s Fr Bernd Hagenkord SJ on Tuesday, Archbishop Müller said: "I do not believe I was summoned by the Holy Father to fill a bureaucratic post and carry out – so to speak – a bureaucratic task, but as a theologian. So above all, I asked myself; what ails the life of the Church?

 

"In many countries, there is a strong polarization: Traditionalists against progressives or whatever you would call them. This must be overcome, we need to find a new and fundamental unity in the Church and individual countries.

 

"Unity in Christ, not a unity produced according to a program and later invoked by a partisan speaker. We are not a community of people aligned to a party program, or a community of scientific research, our unity is gifted to us. We believe in the one Church united in Christ. And if you believe in Christ, really believe - not manipulating the teachings of the Church, or singling out individual points to support your own personal ideology, but rather unconditionally entrusting yourself to Christ - then the unity of the Church is also important. Then the Church will not be – as it is sometimes described in Scripture – torn apart by jealousy and ambition. This is my underlying aim: To reduce the tensions within the Church "

 

Source: Vatican Radio

 

[Cathleen]

 :-p   :-p   :-p

The key words above are:  "If you believe in Christ, really believe....."  He has already shown that he doesn't believe in certain dogmas of the Church.   Grr, grr, grr!  If we all believed and PRACTICED and professed that belief as we should, THEN there would be unity....True Unity...not just this "all one big happy family" stuff and fluff. 

[Dawn Marie]

So right you are Cathleen. 

 

I didn't have the heart to give this it's own thread so I thought I'd stick it here with the other liberal news article.

 

 

 

Theological Pogrom Against the Society of St. Pius X

Tancred
9/18/12

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Austria. [kreuz.net] On the 30th of Junuary 2013, the Archdiocese of Vienna is to organize a lecture against the Society of St. Pius X in the confines their Old Liberal “Theological Course”. The Viennese Cardinal Christoh Schönborn is himself known to leave the Society outside on the stoop and to treat Old Liberals with great hospitality. The event is being aired under the title “The Society of Pius and the Council”. The lecturer is the anti-Church dogmatic theologian, Fr. Wolfgang Beinert (79).

One SSPX newly ordained priest was not able to use the facilities, when a well-intentioned priest of the Archdiocese, Fr. Vasile Ciobanu, wanted to allow him to use his home parish, and was told he couldn’t after asking permission of the Vienna Archdicoese. Meanwhile, the Danube Cardinal frequently makes every effort to accommodate dissidents of every variety, like the infamous Pfarrers’ Initiative.

Also, Fr. Wolfgang Beinert’s, who’s written an unfortunate book about the SSPX, disparaged a statement by the German District Superior that the truths of the Faith are unchanging as “bourgeois stubbornness” are appalling, but what one can expect from the Archdiocese of Vienna.