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Vatican City, Jan 4, 2017 \/ 12:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The ideological efforts to change Catholic doctrine after the Second Vatican Council were deeply misguided, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and a leading interpreter of Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeology,\u201d he said, \u201cis always a proud attempt to subject the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church to the prejudice of one\u2019s own thoughts, with the aim to obtain a manipulative power over the faithful and their lives.\u201d
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\nTheology is different, the cardinal explained, because \u201ctheology is the humble reflection on faith that rises up from listening to the Word of God.\u201d
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\nFor this reason, \u201cany fear that the Council might provoke a breach with the tradition of the Church is not only heretical: it would dismantle the meaning of supernatural mediation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardinal Mueller spoke at the Pontifical Gregorian University for the Dec. 14 presentation of the Italian edition of the seventh book in a series of Joseph Ratzinger\u2019s complete works. The seventh volume contains all the writings the man who served as Benedict XVI wrote about the Second Vatican Council, including writings when he was an expert advisor to Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne.<\/p>\n

The complete works are curated by Cardinal Mueller himself.
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\nIn his remarks, the cardinal said the Second Vatican Council\u2019s wake included a conflict between theology and ideology: \u201cthe expected Pentecostal<\/a> renewal was replaced by the perspective of a \u2018Babylonic\u2019 confession of faith and by the attempt to contradict the thought of the theological school.\u201d
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\nAll of this was \u201cnot a work of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit always listens to the Church in love and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDefecting from faith and counterfeiting faith, and the division from the Church that follows, are fruits of another spirit that is not the Spirit of God,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Mueller cited a famous expression of Benedict XVI: his Dec. 22, 2005 Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, in which he spoke of a \u201chermeneutic of continuity\u201d to interpret the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Mueller emphasized: \u201cwithout a hermeneutic of continuity and of reform, the Church would secularize itself, and would turn into something more similar to a humanitarian organization.\u201d
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\nIf this would happen, he said, \u201cthere would be no reason to be part of the Church.\u201d
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\nCardinal Mueller underscored that \u201cthe hermeneutic of reform and continuity is nothing more than the hermeneutic of faith as it is testified by the Holy Scripture, that lives in the apostolic tradition interpreted in the authentic way of the magisterium. Certainly, the Church is founded on revelation, and not on the magisterium.\u201d
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\nCardinal Mueller further reflected on the nature of ideology. In light of 20th century developments, \u201cwe noted that ideology is nothing more that the claim of some human being to dominate the moral conscience of other people.\u201d
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\nHe added that \u201crenewal\u201d and \u201cmainstream\u201d are secular terms. He suggested their use are \u201cthe signs of ideological strongholds raised against the consciousness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

These ideas, he added, \u201ccan be glimpsed in the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, idealism and materialism, that is, in the ideological turn Europe lived through in the last centuries.\u201d
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\nCardinal Mueller said these ideologies may fall short.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is whether man can really find his foundation and his self-fulfillment without recognizing his constitutive bond with the sovereign Creator and Reconciler,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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