{"product_id":"vatican-confidential-a-candid-conversation-with-cardinal-gerhard-m-ller","title":"Vatican Confidential: A Candid Conversation with Cardinal Gerhard M?ller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"At this moment, I see the Church on the edge of a precipice. . . . What happened during the sack of Constantinople comes to mind, when the Turks besieged the city, and at the moment of greatest danger, the theologians were caught up in debating among themselves about the color of Our Lady's eyes.\" Thus states Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Benedict XVI and foremost defender of the traditional Church, who, for the first time, narrates from the inside some of the most significant episodes of the last two pontificates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting, thorough, and uncensored interview by Vatican correspondent Franca Giansoldati, the German theologian explains the doctrinal confusion wrought by various themes of the Francis papacy that risks fanning the flames of heresies old and new. With a magnifying glass, he examines topics ranging from Vatican foreign policy to the handling of the pedophilia scandals, from gender, abortion, and end of life to the abdication of Benedict XVI, from the Ukraine war to the risk of schism and predictions for the next conclave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat was behind Cardinal Müller's being distanced from the Holy Office\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhether the nomination of new cardinals is linked to a papal attempt at centralizing power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe limits of the encyclical \u003ci\u003ePraedicate Evangelium\u003c\/i\u003e, which redesigned the Roman Curia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhether there is a gay lobby at the Vatican, and the true roles of women in the Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the College of Cardinals never intervened in the controversial Becciu case\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is happening to the Church in Germany, America, and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe candid and revelatory answers to these and many other questions enliven Cardinal Müller's reflections and provide an antidote to the twenty-first century's profound crisis of religion. Readers will come to appreciate the balance required between obedience in the Church and defense of the truth, how attempts to protestantize the Church are destroying faith in the \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e Christ and the sacraments, and the bold solutions the cardinal offers to set the Church on a path to authentic reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gerhard Ludwig Müller (b. 1947) is the archbishop emeritus of Regensburg, Germany. The second German after Joseph Ratzinger to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he has a profound knowledge of modern theology and has dedicated his life to the study of Christian comprehension of revelation, ecclesiology, and ecumenism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Franca Giansoldati is a journalist and Vatican correspondent with the Italian daily Messaggero. Among her books are \u003ci\u003eIl demonio in Vaticano. I Legionari di Cristo e il caso Maciel\u003c\/i\u003e [The demon in the Vatican: The Legionaries of Christ and the Maciel case] (2014), \u003ci\u003eLa marcia senza ritorno\u003c\/i\u003e [The march of no return] (2015), \u003ci\u003eL'alfabeto verde di Papa Francesco\u003c\/i\u003e [The green alphabet of Pope Francis] (2019), and, with Lucetta Scaraffia and Anna Foa, \u003ci\u003eAgnus dei. Gli abusi sessuali del clero in Italia\u003c\/i\u003e [Agnus Dei: sexual abuse in the Italian clergy] (2022). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sophia Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614931816722,"sku":"9798889111047","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8ed6e96-5bd1-4a3b-aa73-35e8bb59dbd1.jpg?v=1732468257","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vatican-confidential-a-candid-conversation-with-cardinal-gerhard-m-ller","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}