Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller Speaking at a presentation of a book on Humanae Vitae, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stressed that attempts to change the Church’s teaching are “a crime against the Church”.
“The current attempt,” he said, “to put in contrast the last three pontificates, with the pretext of imposing a heterodox teaching to the faithful is a crime against the Church and a betrayal of her mission and mandate, whose final task is that of preserving the faith authentically inherited by the apostles.”
Cardinal Mueller spoke at the Lateran University, presenting the new book Karol Wojtyla and Humanae Vitae, by Pawel Galuska. The book traces Cardinal Wojtyla’s contribution to the drafting of Humanae Vitae.
Cardinal Mueller’s remarks referred in particular to the article ‘Re-read Humanae Vitae in light of Amoris Laetitia’ by the Italian theologian Maurizio Chiodi, who was recently appointed a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.