Rome: Le cardinal Müller assure que son rôle est de «protéger» la foi et non de «flirter avec l’opinion publique»
Intenses débats sur la question des divorcés remariés
Rome, 25 mars 2014 (Apic) Sur fond de débats dans l’Eglise autour de la famille, en particulier concernant les divorcés remariés, le cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller a assuré que son rôle était de «protéger» la foi, et non de «flirter avec l’opinion publique». Dans une interview sur Radio Vatican, le 24 mars 2014, le préfet de la Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi, taxé de conservatisme doctrinal, a affirmé que ses confrères cardinaux qui prennent part au débat en cours «parlent pour eux-mêmes» et ne peuvent faire des «affirmations officielles».
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1. Cardinal Müller was clear, in an interview posted by Vatican Radio on Monday, that when he speaks on the marriage debate (as he has done forcefully and clearly since 2013), he is the one who speaks for the Church and her doctrine, as the man named by the Pope to do this job: "I am not involved [in the Kasper debate] as a private theologian, but in the function of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is indeed the only one of the Roman Congregations which has the duty to inform, wihout mediation, the Magisterium of the Pope, while others who take part, even if they have the cardinalatial rank, speak personally, only for themselves, and do not make official statements."
"The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith," the Cardinal adds, "has a clear mandate to promote the Catholic faith, but also to protect it. But that includes no other task than the one the Pope himself received from Jesus Christ, and here I must mention that I do not just sit back in comfort and ease to flirt with public opinion. It is quite fine when you have the wind on your back and are then inflated perhaps excessively. But I believe that this temptation must be resisted by every bishop and by every priest, whether one wants to hear it or not." (In German.)
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