By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 26, 2024
Edward Pentin is the Register’s Senior Contributor and EWTN News Vatican Analyst. He began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register
Speaking to traditional Catholic pilgrims at the annual Summorum Pontificum procession, the former CDF prefect warned of faith becoming ‘thoughtless routine’ and stressed the call to true, living faith
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has stressed that the Christian faith is a “personal relationship” with the Triune God in communion with his Church, and has warned against letting that relationship “atrophy into a mechanical tradition, an external custom or a thoughtless routine.”
In a homily on the distinction between ideology and faith delivered Oct. 26 in St. Peter’s Basilica to participants at the conclusion of the 13th annual Summorum Pontificum traditional procession, he observed that as believers “linked to Jesus by personal friendship, we do not behave like guards in a museum of a bygone world.” ….