Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the Vatican’s former doctrinal czar, warned against Catholics who long for a “meta-religion” of world unity in a January 1 homily in Phoenix.
Some Catholics want the Church to modernize, abandoning its doctrines for the sake of building a “new religion of world unity,” Müller warned thousands of Catholics gathered in Phoenix for the 2020 Student Leadership Summit hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
“In order to be admitted to this meta-religion, the only price the Church would have to pay is giving up her truth claim,” the cardinal told the students. “No big deal, it seems, as the relativism dominant in our world anyway rejects the idea that we could actually know the truth and presents itself as guarantor of peace between all world views and world religions.”
The post-Christian world welcomes these efforts to remake the Church “as a convenient civil religion,” Müller said.
The German cardinal tied his remarks to claims by the late Jesuit cardinal Carlo Maria Martini that the Church was “200 years behind the times” and needed to modernize in order to catch up.
“For some, the Catholic Church is lagging behind by 200 years compared to where the world is today. Is there any truth to this accusation?” Müller asked the group. READ MORE
