Today’s startling, and sickening, news of the appointment of Archbishop Gerhard Müller as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith is just one more nail in the coffin of the hoped for inauguration of a new era of understanding between the Roman authorities of the novus ordo establishment and Catholic traditionalists. This marks a Read more
The new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Bishop Gerhard Mueller, mixes a reputation as a scholarly defender of orthodoxy with close ties to liberation theology and experience in ecumenism. Pope Benedict chose the fellow German and personal friend to succeed American Cardinal William Levada as prefect of the powerful congregation. Read more