The prominent German cardinal roundly slated the latest text to emerge from the Synod, as well as any proposals for blessing of same-sex unions.
Cardinal Müller’s full commentary on the report, as sent to this correspondent from his office:
On God’s Blessing and the False Blessings of This World
By Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Rome
The study groups established by Pope Francis during the 2024 Synod on Synodality are now gradually publishing their — albeit highly controversial — findings.
They are fatally similar in two respects: 1. Through their distrust of the central tenets of Catholic doctrine, which they confuse with a time-bound system of thought, rather than recognizing them as the unabridged and complete transmission of God’s revelation to present and future generations; and 2. in their attempt to align themselves with prevailing ideologies through a so-called “paradigm shift from rigid dogmatism to a people-friendly pastoral approach” in order to gain recognition from their proponents.
They do not openly deny the revealed truths. But they ignore them and build their own house of a comfortable and worldly-conforming Christianity alongside them.
To confuse the naive fellow believers, one garnishes it with biblical and spiritual-sounding platitudes: “what the Spirit says to the churches,” discernment instead of condemnation, the merciful and all-accepting Jesus pitted against the rigorist teachers of the law and the conservative theology professors trapped in their systems, who are more concerned with fidelity to the letter of the law and rigid doctrine than with people in their weakness and vulnerability.
In disregard of or ignorance of Catholic tradition, this leads to the sophistically exaggerated claim that sin does not consist in conscious and voluntary acts against God’s commandments, but rather in the refusal of all-encompassing mercy toward those who cannot or will not fulfill them.
In reality, the Church teaches that Christ died on the cross for the sins of all people and that the Holy Spirit withholds God’s grace from no one who converts to the Gospel, so that they may lead a new and holy life in the following of Christ. Only for this reason can the Apostle say to the baptized: “Do not live any longer as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds… Put off the old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; be renewed in the spirit of your minds; and put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Eph 4:17, 22–24).
In the context of the Synods of Bishops and the national synodal paths in the local churches, the favorite topic of certain bishops, theologians, and laypeople in tune with the spirit of the times keeps cropping up. Instead of leading people to the God-man Jesus Christ, the one and true Mediator between God and humanity, they see the future of the Church — in a monothematic and spiritually limited way — in the adoption of gender and rainbow ideology.
Therefore, they even risk the visible unity of the Church in the truth of Christ, as the Lord Himself, as Head of the Church, has entrusted to the entire College of Bishops with and under the Pope as the personal successor of Peter on the Roman See.
The private or even paraliturgical blessing of same-sex and opposite-sex couples in irregular relationships is based on the heretical denial of the revealed truth that God created human beings as man and woman.
Jesus, who in his person is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, confirmed the Creator’s original will against the Pharisees’ casuistry regarding divorce and definitively revealed that man and woman become one flesh only through the marital “I do” (cf. Mt 19:3–9). Thus, in marriage, man and woman form a personal and sexual two-in-one unity in mutual love, in shared life, and in openness to the children God wishes to give them. And only a man and a woman in marital union are blessed by God so that they may be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and rule (wisely) over all other creatures of the earth (cf. Gen 1:28). There is no mention in Sacred Scripture or in the entire tradition of the Church of a blessing for people in adulterous relationships, nor is there any indication that bishops are authorized to ordain or permit fraudulent and blasphemous blessings.
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