Posted on 11/02/2017 5:56:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, October 25, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller has rebuked the secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal Conference for claiming that the Protestant Reformation was an “event of the Holy Spirit.”
It is “unacceptable to assert that Luther's reform ‘was an event of the Holy Spirit,’" wrote Cardinal Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a recent article published in the Italian newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. (LifeSite provides a full English translation of the cardinal's article here.)
"On the contrary, it was against the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit helps the Church to maintain her continuity through the Church’s magisterium, above all in the service of the Petrine ministry: on Peter has Jesus founded His Church (Mt 16:18), which is 'the Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth' (1 Tim 3:15)," the cardinal wrote.
“The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself,” added Müller.
Müller’s rebuke was directed to a verbatim quote of the secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, who spoke on the topic October 19 at the Pontifical University of the Lateran.
During his address on the topic of “the spirituality of the Reformation in ecclesial practice,” Galantino reportedly said, “The Reformation was, is, and will be in the future, an event of the Spirit,” and “The Reformation carried out by Martin Luther 500 years ago was an event of the Holy Spirit,” according to various Italian media.
“The Reformation corresponds to the truth expressed in the saying ‘Ecclesia semper reformanda,’” Galantino is quoted as saying. “It was the same Luther who did not make himself the cause of the Reformation, writing: ‘while I was sleeping, God was reforming the Church.'”
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What we’re seeing is a growing reality of public fracturing among Bishops. This kind of change in episcopal zeitgeist means we’re headed to a new round of clashes in Church governance IMO.
Müller is a loose cannon. Lion of orthodoxy one day, raving heretic the next.
“...on Peter has Jesus founded His Church (Mt 16:18)”
Total misinterpretation and misunderstanding of this verse.
I remember I once, many years ago, woke up with a dream. A very loud loudspeaker was blaring out the message “The Pope has just announced that he has just become a Christian!”. It seemed it may have been a prophetic dream. I wasn’t sure, though. It may have meant something about the Pope himself, or he could represent the Catholic Church on the whole. It may have been just a very strange dream for someone who didn’t hardly have any thoughts about the Catholic Church at that time. Time will tell.
It seems the last five or six popes have scoured the earth, leaving no stone unturned, seeking the stupidest, most unorthodox, most faithless priests they could find to appoint as bishops.
False.
No...it is actually true that Catholicism perverts that verse. Only Christ Himself could ever be the Rock on which the church is built. Peter was as sinful as you and I and is not worthy to be the Rick as Catholicism teaches.
It also says that the gates of Hell will not prevail against my Church, and despite the efforts on Martin Luther, et al, they have not. There is only one Church that was given the keys to the kingdom, and that was a long time before Luther or any of his cohorts.
Only one Church has an unbroken history—Though riddled with examples of human sin and failure, as would be expected—and can trace it’s roots all the way back to those fateful verses.
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