In a prescient warning that should be heeded by the Irish Synod, racked as it is with Fine Gaelers, Cardinal Muller has warned that the German Synodal Way is ‘a political organisation’ that considers itself the ‘vanguard of the universal church’.
Speaking in an interview this past week, Muller stated that ‘I think the Synodal Way was doomed from the start; it’s just that its initiators haven’t realised it yet’.
The German Synodal Way became a laughing stock as the process rolled on, with it becoming a euphemism for dysfunctional churches. Even Pope Francis quipped that Germany did not need another Evangelical Church.
Muller also stated:
Revelation is entrusted to the Church for faithful preservation, and not, as the Synodal Way meant at the beginning, that this virtually randomly assembled body somehow has the right and authority to override the Church's sacramental constitution and reinterpret Revelation according to its meaning.
He continued:
What is being pursued here is nothing other than division. It is a so-called reform with a crowbar.
This week, the Synodal Way leader Irme Stetter Karp expressed support for abortion, to which Muller responded:
Whoever wants to guarantee these crimes, area-wide for the entire population, cannot pose as a reformer of the Church.
After all, the Church is not the object of our reform. The Church is founded by Christ, cannot be reformed, is unsurpassable; only we can go the way and must go the way of repentance and renewal.
We must reform and renew ourselves in Jesus Christ and thus give the answer to the challenges of today.