He uses the words heresy, Modernism, progressivism, narcissism, and apostasy — as pejoratives; he speaks well of the liturgy and against its banalizations and anthropocentrisms; he defends the unborn; he harshly criticizes the American and European agendas of forcing progressivist sexual ideologies on Africa; he shows what such ideologies have done to Europe, including his own Germany (“…empty Churches; empty confessionals; barely any priestly candidates; one monastery after another closes; the knowledge of the Faith is at its lowest level…”).
A speech worth reading, one the U.S. Congress might have benefitted from.
Take-away quote: “Only that which is morally good and which is in accordance with God’s will can lead man to happiness and salvation.”
It was Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller praising Cardinal Robert Sarah, while introducing that African Cardinal’s book, God or Nothing, in German translation to Müller’s fellow countrymen in Regensburg.
Aside from a perhaps unjustified criticism of Johann Tetzel, the excerpts published on Rorate Caeli (translated by our dear Maike Hickson) are very impressive and worth reading in their entirety.
Here are some excerpts…
It is only a subtle neo-Colonialism when the Development Aid for Africa – as offered by international organizations and Gender-Ideology-States – is connected with the adaptation of this destructive ideology. “They shall rather starve to death if they do not want to expose themselves to our brain washing”; this is the shameless blackmail. The demon of European and Anglo-Saxon pride resurrects itself again when students from the poorest countries are given a dose of mainstreaming and lessons in Gleichschaltung [phasing] – funded, of course, with the help of Western tax money – so that they shall bring into line in their own homelands the Elderly who are still [purportedly] caught up in a pre-rational way of thinking, in view of their own taboos, and who are thus still untouched by the wisdom of the gender ideology.
The Church owes to the people the truth of God. She may not allow herself to be intimidated by the reproaches about her alleged undervaluing of sexuality, for example, or by getting into the dilemma of the demonization or idolization of sexuality. Many factors show the coherence of both the marital teaching and the sexual teaching of the Church which she has received from God: the substantial unity of man in spirit, soul, and body; man’s orientation toward the community and the generational responsibility; and the identity as man and woman in their complementarity with respect to one another. […] When now, even from within the Church, there is a call for a new sexual morality, some people might then – while ignoring the truth of the Gospels – consider this call to be a liberating removal of burdens, a removal of pressure from family, media, the working place, and would, thus, welcome it. However, man is not helped by an old Pagan sexual teaching which is being praised anew which is based upon false anthropological premises and which contradicts in a diametrically opposed way the Commandments of God and which is, from the standpoint of Revelation, to be qualified as being heretical. Only that which is morally good and which is in accordance with God’s will can lead man to happiness and salvation. Entirely apart from the fact that hedonism itself is an age-old heresy and has as its theoretical foundation only the atheistic Nihilism, one can only- in the light of such an atheistic anthropology – consider sexuality as a morally free space in which there exist merely a few external rules. However, from its essence, sexuality itself is exposed to be accountable to the moral principle of the discernment of good and evil: namely, that it has as its criterion – with the help of the unity of the person in soul and body – love and its self-giving, without reservation and without calculation or mutual instrumentalization.
Read it all at Rorate Caeli.
