Rome Newsroom, Jan 12, 2021 / 06:05 am
The former head of the Vatican's doctrinal office said on Sunday that today's media environment is undermining theological truths that are the foundation of Church unity.
"In the era of secular thought and the mass media, political and ideological points of view end up contaminating theological judgment -- that is, the way of seeing the faith of the supernatural mission of the Church," Cardinal Gerhard Müller wrote in an essay published online Jan. 10.
"At the extreme, the principles of Catholic theology are suspected of 'conservative' or 'liberal' ideology, depending on the point of interest," he said in the text published by the Italian media outlet La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana.
Müller, the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith from 2012 to 2017, said that in today's media environment, which is dominated by images, "theological criteria are today more difficult to convey, as they require understanding through concepts and judgments of thought."