I had only just
heard about the appointment of Archbishop Müller yesterday,
as the Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and already I
began to see various blogs and articles expressing concern about his
appointment. What I found so incredibly amusing
was that it seemed that people from both ends of the scale were concerned
about the fact that Pope Benedict XVI had appointment him.
On one end of the scale, I read the complaints of writers who
are gravely concerned because, in their opinion, Archbishop Müller is too
liberal. On the other end of the
scale are those writers who feel that Archbishop Müller is too conservative. I suppose what we have here is one of the
stark realities of life: You can make
some of the people happy for some of the time, but you can never make all of the
people happy all of the time!
You have got to love our Church.
It is so full of so many diverse opinions. Never short of people who are always so
certain, that they know what it is that should be done or should not be done.
What was sadly lacking, in all of the blogs and articles that I
read, was any inkling of faith in the promises of our Lord
to protect His Church. There was not one
Catholic blog or article that I read, which stopped, even for a just a moment, and called on Catholics to pray for Archbishop Müller as he takes on the responsibilities
of his new office.
This is so sad. Surely
today, on the Feast of St Thomas, of all days, we do not need some special sign to
remind us that there is far more to all this than what we can observe naturally? Have we really forgotten about the
supernatural element? Have we forgotten
our Lords words to the Apostles, and in turn to their successors: “He who hears you hears me, and he who
rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”[1]
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