Posted on 12/31/2017 6:44:35 PM PST by marshmallow
"You have defended the clear traditions of faith"
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is praising the Vatican's former chief of doctrine. In a preface to a newly published German book, the retired pontiff wrote: "You have defended the clear traditions of faith, but in the spirit of Pope Francis you have tried to understand how they can be lived today."
The book, titled The Triune God: Christian Faith in the Age-Old Era, is being published in anticipation of Müller's 70th birthday on December 31, and on the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The nearly 700-page tome includes contributions from various prelates, including Cdls. Kurt Koch and Reinhard Marx, as well as notorious Synod bishop Bruno Forte, among others.
Benedict went on to say that "a priest, and certainly a bishop and a cardinal, never retires."
Müller's five-year term ended on July 2 following months of rumors that his time at the CDF was nearing an end, as he became increasingly vocal about his denunciations of attempts to change Church discipline and doctrine on marriage and the sacraments.
"I have said it many times, and I repeat it here again," he said in remarks made June 21, "Jesus established clearly, and without doubt, the indissolubility of valid matrimony. This is what we must preach, declare and explain to the Catholic faithful."
Addressing the worldwide confusion following Amoris Laetitia, the cardinal explained, "Contrition, confession and reparation are the three necessary elements for absolution. These are the immediate conditions for receiving the Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ, who is the same divine Person who forgives us."
A December shake-up at the CDF caught Müller by surprise, who lost three of his best staff. According to Vaticanista Marco Tosatti, the prelate "was very perplexed, because they were.....
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Too bad he left us when we needed him most.
....but in the spirit of Pope Francis.....HA!! What a great SLAP in the FACE Benedict just gave Frankie, the LEFTIST!!
BTTT!
How many times have I told this forum that Benedict and Francis are cut from the same Modernist cloth; are two peas in the same Modernist pod?
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