Cardinal Müller cautions both rad-trad and liberal Catholics in Bishop Barron interview

The former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that both progressivists and radical traditionalists misread the Second Vatican Council through political lenses

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Cardinal Gerhard Müller has warned that both liberal and ultra-traditionalist Catholics risk distorting the true meaning of the Second Vatican Council.

Speaking to Bishop Robert Barron in an hour-long interview for the bishop’s YouTube channel, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that both progressivists and radical traditionalists misread the Council through political lenses, insisting that the Church must remain faithful to the revealed truth of Christ rather than succumb to ideological categories.

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