News Item: : On the Hamster Wheel with Cardinal Muller
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Wednesday 01 February 2017 - 21:18:16

By now, you've probably already read Sandro Magister's published excerpts from Cardinal Muller's interview with the Italian magazine, Il Timone.

Whilst Muller's answers contain some positive affirmations of orthodoxy - goodness! how low we must have fallen to be grateful for such meagre scraps from the head of the CDF! - it is nevertheless clear that he is still attempting to avoid seeing the Jorge wood for the Bergoglio trees, when it comes to the ongoing saga of Amoris-gate.

I quote from the very words of His Excellency: ''It is not Amoris Laetitia that has provoked a confused interpretation, but some confused interpretations of it.''

Congratulations Eminence: only a slick politician could have done better than that!

I've got to say it, but as circular arguments go, this one had me just going round and round like a spinning-top. It left me feeling a couple of umlauts short of a surname!

Look, this kind of statement is so ridiculous that, if this wasn't such a spiritually dangerous issue involving the salvation of countless millions of souls, we'd all be falling over the backs of our chairs and laughing our socks off right now.

In any case, Magister thrusts a stick into the spokes of Muller's rapidly rotating wheel by reminding his readers that it was Pope Francis himself who told the Argentine bishops, in the region of Buenos Aires, that there was no other interpretation of Amoris Laetitia than the sacrilegious one that they had so painstakingly spelled out and submitted for checking like a bunch of teacher's pet schoolboys.

Confused interpretations indeed...

You know, speaking of pets, we used to have a pet hamster called Marmaduke.

That little fella used to crawl out of his straw in the early hours, scramble up onto his plastic cage-wheel and start running like an olympian.

I don't know if you've ever observed this, but at a certain point, hamsters like that wear themselves out and just stop running.

The problem is that, by then, the wheel has reached a momentum all of its own and the hamsters end up just spinning around and around against their will, like a loose cog in the machine.

Thanks to Pope Francis, Cardinal Muller and their never-ending spin over Amoris, I guess we all know how that feels...

 

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