Wise words from Card. Mueller, recognising both of the matter. To my mind, Pope Leo seems sadly ignorant of both sides, including the fact that Iran has been in a state of declared war with USA for 47 years.
I think Leo will be a very good pope when he settles in, but he has to grow out of the woke-like ideas that have passed for Catholics education at all levels (pre-school to seminary) for the last fifty years or so, plumping always for the superficially-perceived underdog.
Popular perceptions are a trap, and should be well below the intelligence of any pope. His last words on the Islamic colonisation of Christian nations recognises them as poor refugees, when so many of them are illegal economic migrants and/or organised military-age Muslim militants.
"The cardinals, acting with complete freedom and mindful only of their responsibility before God, elected as Pope that one among their brothers whom God Himself had chosen and willed as the successor of St. Peter."
I'm glad to hear that Cardinals have all achieved Christian perfection! But since only God could know that, even were it to be true...
And according to Pope Benedict and history, the Holy Spirit does NOT choose the Pope: you can't blame bad Popes on God!
"And we cardinals have promised obedience to Pope Leo XIV and declared our readiness to stand up for him and the Church of Christ even at the cost of our own lives."
The shepherd stands up for the sheep...and the Cardinals. We stand up for him when doing so is the same as standing up for the Church.
"There will be no new Avignon, as was menacingly suggested..."
Re: ‘The cardinals, acting with complete freedom and mindful only of their responsibility before God, elected as Pope that one among their brothers whom God Himself had chosen and willed as the successor of St. Peter.’
Not that I support Trump in some of his most recent
tirades but that the concept that somehow the Papal election is NOT God’s permissive will but some positive action of the God the Holy Ghost, is useless blather. Muller should re-examine his blasphemies on the Virgin birth and spare us the rest of his modernistic ramblings IMO.
Wise words from Card. Mueller, recognising both of the matter. To my mind, Pope Leo seems sadly ignorant of both sides, including the fact that Iran has been in a state of declared war with USA for 47 years.
I think Leo will be a very good pope when he settles in, but he has to grow out of the woke-like ideas that have passed for Catholics education at all levels (pre-school to seminary) for the last fifty years or so, plumping always for the superficially-perceived underdog.
Popular perceptions are a trap, and should be well below the intelligence of any pope. His last words on the Islamic colonisation of Christian nations recognises them as poor refugees, when so many of them are illegal economic migrants and/or organised military-age Muslim militants.
Your Eminence, I respectfully disagree with your statement about criticism of the Pope. Your prime responsibility is obedience not agreement.
"The cardinals, acting with complete freedom and mindful only of their responsibility before God, elected as Pope that one among their brothers whom God Himself had chosen and willed as the successor of St. Peter."
I'm glad to hear that Cardinals have all achieved Christian perfection! But since only God could know that, even were it to be true...
And according to Pope Benedict and history, the Holy Spirit does NOT choose the Pope: you can't blame bad Popes on God!
"And we cardinals have promised obedience to Pope Leo XIV and declared our readiness to stand up for him and the Church of Christ even at the cost of our own lives."
The shepherd stands up for the sheep...and the Cardinals. We stand up for him when doing so is the same as standing up for the Church.
"There will be no new Avignon, as was menacingly suggested..."
That didn't happen.
Re: ‘The cardinals, acting with complete freedom and mindful only of their responsibility before God, elected as Pope that one among their brothers whom God Himself had chosen and willed as the successor of St. Peter.’
Not that I support Trump in some of his most recent
tirades but that the concept that somehow the Papal election is NOT God’s permissive will but some positive action of the God the Holy Ghost, is useless blather. Muller should re-examine his blasphemies on the Virgin birth and spare us the rest of his modernistic ramblings IMO.