Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, published a strong criticism on 8 May of the final report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality. He described proposed blessings for same-sex couples as “fraudulent and blasphemous” and accused the document of promoting a “heretical relativisation” of natural and sacramental marriage.
In a detailed commentary published last week, the German cardinal, who led the Vatican’s doctrinal office from 2012 to 2017, warned that the study group’s conclusions reflected a broader attempt to align Church pastoral practice with contemporary ideologies at the expense of revealed truth. He stated that such blessings rested upon “the heretical denial of the revealed truth that God created humankind as male and female”.
