«A valid sacramental marriage is indissoluble: this is the Catholic practice reaffirmed by Popes and Councils, in fidelity to the Word of Jesus». This is how you respond, Mgr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and one of the new Cardinals created by Pope Francis, on the topic of divorced and remarried people and the sacraments, in an interview published in "Il Corriere della Sera", last December. Previously, in a long and argued speech published in the "Osservatore Romano" (October 23), Monsignor Gerhard Ludwig Müller stated: «A fully responsible pastoral care presupposes a theology that abandons itself to God who reveals himself "by giving him the full respect of intellect and will and voluntarily assenting to the Revelation that he makes." In fact "the Catholic Church, in its teaching and practice, has constantly referred to the words of Jesus on the indissolubility of marriage".

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