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"At this moment, I see the Church on the edge of a precipice. . . . What happened during the sack of Constantinople comes to mind, when the Turks besieged the city, and at the moment of greatest danger, the theologians were caught up in debating among themselves about the color of Our Lady's eyes." Thus states Cardinal Gerhard M?ler, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Benedict XVI and foremost defender of the traditional Church, who, for the first time, narrates from the inside some of the most significant episodes of the last two pontificates.
In this riveting, thorough, and uncensored interview by Vatican correspondent Franca Giansoldati, the German theologian explains the doctrinal confusion wrought by various themes of the Francis papacy that risks fanning the flames of heresies old and new. With a magnifying glass, he examines topics ranging from Vatican foreign policy to the handling of the pedophilia scandals, from gender, abortion, and end of life to the abdication of Benedict XVI, from the Ukraine war to the risk of schism and predictions for the next conclave.
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The candid and revelatory answers to these and many other questions enliven Cardinal M?ler's reflections and provide an antidote to the twenty-first century's profound crisis of religion. Readers will come to appreciate the balance required between obedience in the Church and defense of the truth, how attempts to protestantize the Church are destroying faith in the true Christ and the sacraments, and the bold solutions the cardinal offers to set the Church on a path to authentic reform.
Gerhard Ludwig M?ler (b. 1947) is the archbishop emeritus of Regensburg, Germany. The second German after Joseph Ratzinger to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he has a profound knowledge of modern theology and has dedicated his life to the study of Christian comprehension of revelation, ecclesiology, and ecumenism.
Franca Giansoldati is a journalist and Vatican correspondent with the Italian daily Messaggero. Among her books are Il demonio in Vaticano. I Legionari di Cristo e il caso Maciel [The demon in the Vatican: The Legionaries of Christ and the Maciel case] (2014), La marcia senza ritorno [The march of no return] (2015), L'alfabeto verde di Papa Francesco [The green alphabet of Pope Francis] (2019), and, with Lucetta Scaraffia and Anna Foa, Agnus dei. Gli abusi sessuali del clero in Italia [Agnus Dei: sexual abuse in the Italian clergy] (2022).
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