This is only an excerpt from the interview with the rest in French requiring a registration. However, in this short question and answer, the Prefect states quite clearly that those in Germany such as Cardinal Marx who take the attitude that they are "not a subsidiary of Rome" are engaging in an "absolutely anti-Catholic idea." Cardinal Müller continues with general comments about the role of Episcopal Conferences that dioceses are not subsidiaries of the secretariat of an episcopal conference and that President "is nothing more than a technical moderator," and certainly not a little pope!
It appears that Cardinal Marx is becoming more isolated and exposed for what is, when it comes to the Church in Germany, a schismatic mentality
The translation of the article is below with emphasis:
Cardinal Müller: "The bishop is to be a martyr by the word"
26/03/2015 - Par Jean-Marie Dumont
In this exclusive interview, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect
of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, answers questions
raised in the Church at the Synod on the family.
In a book of interviews on family,
recently published in Italy and the United States, you encourage Christians to
"choose the prophetic courage of martyrdom." Why?
The Church is not a philanthropic
organisation. To say that we respect the views of all, we want good to all, is
not enough. Present the Gospel as a single therapeutic message is not very
difficult, but does not meet the requirement of Jesus. "Blessed are you
when people insult you and persecute you, and if we speak all kinds of evil
against you because of me," Jesus said. The first apostles, Church
Fathers, the great bishops of the Church's history have so often sailed facing
headwinds. How could it be otherwise for us?
Some doctrinal or disciplinary decisions
on marriage and the family can they be delegated to the bishops' conferences?
This is an absolutely anti-Catholic idea
that does not respect the catholicity of the Church. Episcopal conferences have
authority over certain issues, but not a magisterium next to the Magisterium,
without the pope and without communion with the Bishops. This is an absolutely anti-Catholic idea.
Recently, a German bishop said the
Episcopal Conference he leads was not a "subsidiary of Rome". What
about you?
An episcopal conference is not a
particular council, much less an ecumenical council. The president of an
Episcopal Conference is nothing more than a technical moderator, and as such
has no special teaching authority. To hear that a Bishops' Conference is not a
"subsidiary of Rome" gives me the opportunity to recall that the
dioceses are not subsidiaries of the secretariat of an episcopal conference or
diocese whose Bishop presides over the Episcopal Conference. This attitude
makes the risk of waking some polarisation between the local churches and the
universal Church, exceeded in the councils Vatican I and Vatican II. The Church
is not a set of national churches, including the presidents would vote to elect
their leader at the universal level.
