Press title:
Müller defends Leo XIV, warns Trump: “No one should use God for their own interests”
Money byte:
“No one has the right to criticise the Pope”
The concluding point of Müller’s statement is the most direct: “It must be said clearly that no one has the right to criticise the Pope when he faithfully follows the mandate he received from Christ: to bear witness to the Gospel of peace.” The evangelical message, he concluded, “stands above the interests of politics, and God is our judge”. And no powerful man - not even the most powerful in the world - may “instrumentalise the name of God for his own interests”. Leo XIV, Müller recalled as he closed on a note of hope, opened his pontificate with the biblical greeting that has echoed for two thousand years: “Peace be with you!” That is where we must begin again. Not from Truth Social.
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Silere non possum
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Reading Cardinal Müller reminds us what we have been missing for so many years
Cardinal Müller:
“It must be said clearly that no one has the right to criticise the Pope when he faithfully follows the mandate he received from Christ: to bear witness to the Gospel of peace.”
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Then there is the following:
Laura Ingraham, as well as her guest, Raymond Arroyo:
https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/fox-news-contributor-raymond-arroyo-donald-trump-was-sloppy-and-frankly
RAYMOND ARROYO (GUEST): "Let's start with the president. This was a sloppy and frankly disrespectful attack on the Pope. I don't think he should have issued this kind of long ad hominem."
"But I understand in the president's reading of this, when you have a pope saying, call your congressman, call your senator, to get them to advocate for peace and oppose this war.
"When the pope says, as they did on Easter Sunday, let those who have weapons lay them down, Laura, that sounds political, particularly when you've got Swiss guardsmen with arms protecting you..."
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): "And a wall."
ARROYO: "...and I don't remember the Pope saying that about China. So, these are personal opinions."
INGRAHAM: "So, you think this has been kind of intentionally kind of created by the media?"
ARROYO: "Well, yeah. Last night on 60 Minutes, Norah O Donnell featured three left-of-center cardinals. Clearly the president was watching this. It feels like they were trying to provoke the president into a reaction and he fell into the trap."
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Pax.
Mark Thomas
With Father McDonald's permission:
CCC: 2246:
"It is a part of the Church's mission "to pass moral judgments even in matters related to politics..." 53
53. Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes, #76
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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