[Grem] Müller bíb.:'A globális erők a pandémiát a Katolikus Egyház visszaszorítására használják fel'

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 Vatican’s former doctrine head: ‘Global players’ are using pandemic to
‘suppress’ Catholic Church
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vaticans-former-doctrine-head-global-players-are-using-pandemic-to-suppress-catholic-church

The former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith joined
with exiled archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to denounce world governments'
treatment of the coronavirus pandemic.
Fri May 22, 2020 - 9:09 pm EST
[image: Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith] Cardinal Gerhard Müller. Diane Montagna /
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By Martin Bürger
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ROME, May 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>) — German
cardinal Gerhard Müller has warned against “global players who are against
the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church is pro-life, pro-family,
and for religious freedom.”

Talking to EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo *on Thursday
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBrdWekNn8>, the former prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said certain powers “want to
instrumentalize this situation” of the coronavirus pandemic “to suppress
the Catholic Church.”*

“The security for your life is not the only value,” he said. “We have also
spiritual values. We cannot isolate totally all the population. We have
other illnesses and other dangers in our life, and we cannot absolutely
remain in our home.”

“We cannot restrict the human existence, also in a materialistic
interpretation, as if we are able to construct a paradise on Earth,” Müller
cautioned.

“The state as such cannot say, ‘We forbid worshiping,’” he said. “We have
the fundamental religious rights, human rights, and the state must respect
these rights of everybody.”

The former bishop of Regensburg in Germany pointed out *the contradiction
between, on the one hand, saying that churches need to be closed but, on
the other hand, grocery stores being allowed to remain open for business.*

He asked, “Why is the danger in the church bigger than in the supermarket?”

Beyond prohibiting public Masses, *“nobody has the right to forbid the
priests, the shepherds, to visit the people who are dying or very ill.” As
Müller explained, faithful Catholics have the right to “pastoral care in
these cases.”*

Müller talked to Arroyo about the appeal
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/four-cardinals-join-global-appeal-decrying-crackdown-on-basic-freedoms-over-coronavirus>
“for the Church and the world,” which Müller had signed, together with two
other cardinals and many other Catholics, in early May.

The text, which had been drafted by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, had come
under severe criticism, especially in Germany
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-mueller-defends-global-appeal-decrying-loss-of-basic-freedoms-over-coronavirus>,
for allegedly peddling conspiracy theories regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
and the response to it by public authorities.

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing of
Limburg, had said his organization “does in principle not comment on
appeals by individual bishops outside Germany.”

Nevertheless, he commented that “the assessment of the coronavirus pandemic
by the German Bishops’ Conference is fundamentally different from the
appeal published yesterday.”

Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, who succeeded Müller as bishop of Regensburg,
said only that he was “adopting as his own” the statement by Bätzing.

Bishop Gebhard Fürst tweeted, “As bishop of the [Diocese of
Rottenburg-Stuttgart] I strongly dissociate myself from the dangerous
theories of the group around Archbishop Viganò. Whoever reinterprets the
efforts of politics to protect human life from the [coronavirus] into a
dubious world conspiracy is playing with fire!”

Cardinal Müller explained that Viganò had asked him to sign the letter
during a phone conversation. “I said I will support him to overcome the
isolation, all the tensions between the Vatican and him,” he pointed out.

The bishops who signed the Viganò appeal, Müller continued, cannot say
anything about the medical issues of COVID-19, “but *we have to speak
against the instrumentalization of this virus, of this big world crisis,
global crisis, by some dictatorial states or by other ideological groups
which want to take the opportunity to suppress the Church and make a
breakdown of the sacramental life of the Church.”*

The main task after this breakdown, according to Müller, will be
evangelization and “to give people the hope that also in cases of our
diseases and of our death, of our short life and all the accidents that are
in this world, we have a wider horizon.”

Asked about *the main mission of the Church*, Müller responded, *“We are
cooperating with secular institutions for social justice and peace and
ecology*,* but our main mission is to preach the kingdom of God.”*
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