Catholic Cardinal on LGBT Mass in Rome: They desecrated the House of God

Cardinal Müller. Photo: kath.net

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, declared that LGBT representatives for whom a special Mass was celebrated in Rome had desecrated the House of God.

“The Catholic Church must proclaim the truth, but also refute lies. This means that we must not only positively confess the faith but also actively refute errors,” the Cardinal said.

Responding to a question about the “jubilee LGBT pilgrimage” to the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus and to St. Peter’s Basilica – which resulted in a viral photo of two men holding hands – Cardinal Müller stated that these people “desecrated the temple of God and turned the Father’s house into a den of thieves” (Jn. 2:17).

He said that the LGBT movement flagrantly violates the will of God the Creator, who ordained marriage as a holy sacrament in Christ, and that what had taken place was “an absolute scandal.”

The Cardinal recalled that several years ago Cardinal Reinhard Marx also celebrated a Mass for such groups in Munich, “turning the sacred into a propaganda show.”

“Now the same thing is happening in the Church of Jesus in Rome: an Italian bishop speaks of the possibility of changing the divinely revealed teaching on marriage and family according to human, carnal desires,” Müller stressed.

When asked what it meant that an entire group “which openly rejected the Catholic faith in matters of sexual morality” entered the church, Müller said that this group abused “the Catholic faith, grace, and the symbol of the Holy Door – Jesus Christ – for propaganda purposes,” while living “in open contradiction to the will of the Creator.”

“They defiled the Church of God with indecent gestures and with their way of life. As St. Paul said: ‘Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie’ (Rom. 1:24–25),” Müller noted.

The former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reminded that these words of Paul were not only relevant “in the times when the Epistle to the Romans was written, when homosexuality, pederasty, and pedophilia were widespread in pre-Christian antiquity. Even today they are the result of denying God the Creator, who made man male and female.”

“It is astonishing that bishops and priests give place to this anti-witness of the Catholic faith, which openly contradicts the will of God. They should return to the Church’s teaching on marriage and family, especially the Pastoral Constitution of the Second Vatican Council on the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, §§47–52,” the Cardinal concluded.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that the Lutheran Archbishop of Latvia stated that there is room in the Church even for LGBT.

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