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Cardinal Müller Report

An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church

By: Carlos Granados

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Cardinal Müller Report

An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church

By: Carlos Granados

This is an exclusive interview of Cardinal Müller, the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and one of the most outstanding Catholic figures in theology today. As a theologian, he strives to give God's answers to men's questions. As the Prefect of the CDF, he has a privileged perspective on the worldwide state of the Church on doctrinal, moral and theological matters, and the questions Catholics and others have today on those matters. But what questions do our contemporaries have? And what answers do they demand from the believer? People today do not see their lack of faith as a tragedy, but what does worry them profoundly is their lack of hope, for which—making matters worse—they try to make up with shallow substitutes like optimism. The key question today therefore is one of hope. And they wonder whether there is hope for the "now", they wonder whether they can find it in Christianity—and they wonder, above all: What is the foundation of Christian hope? This interview with Cardinal Müller therefore takes hope as its basic subject: it is a "report on hope". It is an in-depth discussion of hope in relation to faith and love, and in relation to Jesus Christ, the Church, the family, and contemporary society.

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Ignatius Press

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1621641481

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The Hope of the Family

A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

By: Gerhard Müller

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The Hope of the Family

A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

By: Gerhard Müller

ಜToday, the family is in crisis it is in crisis worldwideಝ, Pope Francis has said. ಜYoung people donಙt want to get married, they donಙt get married, or they live together. Marriage is in crisis, and so the family is in crisis.ಝ The main problem with the family in the Church today, contends Gerhard Cardinal Müller, is not the small number of civilly remarried divorced Catholics who want to receive Holy Communion. It is the large number of Catholics who live together before marriage, who marry civilly, or who do not even bother with marriage, as if these choices were sound options for Catholic living. Furthering the problem is the widespread failure of married Catholics to understand marriage as a way of Christian discipleship. In this engaging conversation, Cardinal Müller, one of Pope Francisಙ top advisers in the Vatican, addresses the challenges facing marriage and family life today. The loss of faith in many traditionally Christian societies has led to a crisis. In turn, cohabitation, civil marriage, and divorce and civil remarriage, further undermine faith because they harm the family as the ಜdomestic Churchಝ and the place of initial evangelization. Thus, the Church must undertake a robust new evangelization of the family: sharing the fullness of truth about marriage and family in Christ, encouraging families to worship and to pray together, and helping them to witness by their lives the joy of the gospel. Cardinal Müller stresses mercy and compassion in pastoral ministry with struggling Catholics, but he does so without either contradicting the teaching of Jesus about divorce and remarriage or minimizing the power of grace to transform lives. In this way he proclaims hope for the family rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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168149504X

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The Power of Truth

The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today

By: Cardinal Gerhard Müller

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The Power of Truth

The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today

By: Cardinal Gerhard Müller

That we might find support in the faith and overcome the present temptation to apostasy, schism, and resignation, but at the same time not succumb to the danger of overestimating ourselves and relying on our own activity instead of on grace—that is the goal of the present book. –from the Introduction "You shall know the truth," Jesus said, "and the truth will make you free" (Jn 8:32). Such is the liberating power of truth. In this book, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, former head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, unabashedly defends the truth of salvation taught by Christ and the Roman Catholic Church. He discusses how Catholic teaching addresses present-day crises in the Church and in the world. This book also includes the cardinal's recently released Manifesto of Faith. Relying heavily on The Catechism of the Catholic Church, it clarifies certain Church doctrines that have lately seemed to be in doubt.

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162164281X

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You Shall Be a Blessing

Twelve Letters on the Priesthood

By: Cardinal Gerhard Müller

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You Shall Be a Blessing

Twelve Letters on the Priesthood

By: Cardinal Gerhard Müller

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller is a voice contemporary Catholic priests need to hear. You Shall Be a Blessing is an affirmation of priestly life and ministry presented in twelve letters. Müller offers personal encouragement through finely honed theological and spiritual insight on the meaning, history, and importance of the priesthood to today’s Catholic Church. Vocational identity is an enduring concern among Catholic priests, bishops, teachers, and many lay Catholics around the world, particularly because of the challenges wrought by a changing Church and rapidly shifting culture. The struggle to navigate the personal and sacramental meanings of a priest’s place in the Church is made more difficult by the disheartening loss of the Church’s credibility in recent years and by seismic shifts away from the practice of religion by believers across the western world. Yet most priests continue to serve and lead the people in their care with great compassion, conviction, and desire to serve. In You Shall Be a Blessing, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, writes as a spiritual father and careful teacher in twelve letters to priests, offering clear picture of their role in the life and work of the Church. He also addresses the theological tasks and spiritual disciplines needed by priests as they give witness to the Word, serve, and sanctify the Church.

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Ave Maria Press

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1594719322

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Priesthood and Diaconate

The Recipient of Holy Orders from the Perspective of Creation Theology and Christology

By: Gerhard Müller

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Priesthood and Diaconate

The Recipient of Holy Orders from the Perspective of Creation Theology and Christology

By: Gerhard Müller

Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, confirmed that conferring Holy Orders on men only is a matter pertaining to divine revelation that has consistently been taught by the universal and ordinary Magisterium of the Church, and hence is to be definitively held by all the faithful. Thus, the Church's practice is not a concession to the customs of an age, but is founded upon a theology of the sexes, which is based on the relationship of man and woman originating in creation itself. This relationship is sanctified to the utmost in the Sacrament of Matrimony, as the concrete symbol of God's love for mankind. God's own self-communication is inscribed in this marital consecration when Christ, being the representative of the Father, presents himself as the Bridegroom of the Church, his Bride. Furthermore, this spousal relationship between Christ and the Church is reflected in the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the male recipient's relation to the Church, which stands in relation to him as a feminine reality. This book thoughtfully explores the Church's understanding of the ministerial priesthood and the diaconate. Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, formerly the Bishop of Regensburg, is now Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has written and edited much on this topic as a member of the International Theological Commission. His writings on this subject have been combined in this present volume into a systematic presentation, expanded and updated. "Muller offers us an irrefutable case, based on theological sources, for the Church's teaching and practice since the time of the Apostles of conferring the sacrament of Holy Orders on baptized males only." -Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J., Editor, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

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1681493926

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Roman Encounters

The Unity of the Church and the Holy See's Responsibility for the Universal Church

By: Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller

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Roman Encounters

The Unity of the Church and the Holy See's Responsibility for the Universal Church

By: Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has assembled here his most noteworthy lectures, interviews, and dialogues to offer a clear and compelling exploration of Catholic teachings. He explores hundreds of topics that are critical to the health of the Church and the salvation of souls. Cardinal Müller's vast knowledge and profound faith will deepen your understanding of our Faith and of the Church. In Roman Encounters, he tackles these and countless other issues: Where the Enlightenment went wrong — and how it continues to beguile some theologians Dangerous pitfalls in ecumenism — and how to avoid them The only basis for reuniting the denominations The proper place for diversity in the Church The right way to be Christian in our skeptical age How the Church must confront our secular age How to evangelize today — and what we must not do when we evangelize What Rome must do now to renew the Church

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1682781240

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The Pope

His Mission and His Task

By: Gerhard Cardinal Muller

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The Pope

His Mission and His Task

By: Gerhard Cardinal Muller

This book offers an introduction to the theological and historical aspects of the papacy, an office and institution that is unique in this world. Throughout its history up to our present time, the Petrine ministry is both fascinating and challenging to people, both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Gerhard Cardinal Müller speaks from a particular and personal viewpoint, including his experience of working closely with the pope every day as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He addresses, in particular, those dimensions of the papal office which are crucial for understanding more deeply the pope as a visible principle of the church’s unity. 500 years after the Protestant reformation, the book offers insights into the ecumenical controversies about the papacy throughout the centuries, in their historical context. The book also exposes prejudices and cliches, and points to the authentic foundation of the Petrine ministry.

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CUA Press

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0813234697

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The Hope of the Family

A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

By: Gerhard Müller

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A Dialogue with Gerhard Cardinal Muller

By: Gerhard Müller

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True and False Reform: What It Means to Be Catholic

By: Gerhard Cardinal Müller

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True and False Reform: What It Means to Be Catholic

By: Gerhard Cardinal Müller

From her very beginning, the Church has been entrusted with the universal commission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt 28:19), offering to the entire world the new life and communion with God that is made available in Christ through Baptism and the Christian confession of faith. This charge requires of the Church and her members both an orientation to God and a responsibility for the world—neither can be neglected, as they form an indissoluble relational unity that flows from the person of Christ, the “one mediator between God and men”(1 Tim 2:5). Yet in the current age, the Church appears forced to choose between God and the world, between the identity of the faith and its relevance for modern humanity, between fidelity to Revelation and innovation. In True and False Reform, Gerhard Cardinal Müller seeks to provide an aid for navigating the tensions, confusions, and divisions of this modern crisis, directing our attention to the Church’s essence, characteristics, life, and mission—not as one religion among others, but as the site of Christ’s saving presence with humanity. It is Christ who is the Church’s life and foundation, and Christ, too, who is the source and end of that transformation according to his likeness to which all are called. Müller shows that this universal call to renewal in Christ—in faith, life, and prayer—is the basis of the Church’s catholicity, the principal of all true reform, and the impetus for Catholics’ journeying together with Christians from other churches and ecclesial communities toward perfect unity in Christ.

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1645852792

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The Power of Truth

The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today

By: Gerhard Müller

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The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today

By: Gerhard Müller

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The Pope

His Mission and His Task

By: Gerhard Cardinal Muller

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His Mission and His Task

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Roman Encounters

The Unity of the Church and the Holy See's Responsibility for the Universal Church

By: Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller

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The Unity of the Church and the Holy See's Responsibility for the Universal Church

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Teaching and Learning the Love of God

Being a Priest Today

By: Joseph Ratzinger

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Teaching and Learning the Love of God

Being a Priest Today

By: Joseph Ratzinger

This inspiring collection of homilies delivered by Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) over six decades offers deep theological and historical insights on the meaning of the life and the witness of a Catholic priest. When Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the Year for Priests in 2009, he did so in conjunction with celebrating the 150th anniversary of the death of John Vianney, the patron saint of all parish priests. Benedict's purpose for that special year is the same purpose of this book of homilies—to deepen the commitment of all priests to interior renewal for the sake of a stronger and more incisive witness to the Gospel in today's world. As St. John Vianney would often say, "The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus." This touching expression makes us reflect on the immense gift that priests represent, not only for the Church but for all mankind. Contemporary men and women need priests to be distinguished by their determined witness to Christ. These homilies are meant to illuminate and to inspire priests to renew their commitment to "teaching and learning the love of God". The homilies cover a wide variety of important topics on the priesthood, all deeply rooted in Scripture, including acting in persona Christi, becoming an offering with Christ for the salvation of mankind, being there for God's mercy, and witnessing Christian joy.

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Book's by Gerhard Cardinal Muller

Cardinal Müller Report

Cardinal Müller Report

The Hope of the Family

The Hope of the Family

The Power of Truth

The Power of Truth

You Shall Be a Blessing

You Shall Be a Blessing

Priesthood and Diaconate

Priesthood and Diaconate

Roman Encounters

Roman Encounters

The Pope

The Pope

The Hope of the Family

The Hope of the Family

True and False Reform: What It Means to Be Catholic

True and False Reform: What It Means to Be Catholic

The Power of Truth

The Power of Truth

The Pope

The Pope

Roman Encounters

Roman Encounters

Teaching and Learning the Love of God

Teaching and Learning the Love of God

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