German Cardinal Gerhard Müller visits home of Mark Houck, target of FBI raid

Joe Bukuras   By Joe Bukuras for CNA

 

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller visited the home and family of Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven who was arrested on Sept. 13 by several FBI agents in the early hours of the morning. / iFamNews via YouTube

Boston, Mass., Oct 14, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA).

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller visited the home and family of Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven who was arrested on Sept. 23 by several FBI agents in the early hours of the morning.

In a video posted on YouTube Oct. 12, the cardinal is seen on the front porch of the Houck family home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the 48-year-old had been taken into custody at gunpoint in front of his terrified wife and children.

Müller then made a statement condemning the arrest of Houck, whom he called “a peaceful father defending his son, defending the right of life of the babies.”

“Persecution of the good people is always a sign of the beginning of dictatorship and tyranny,” Müller said in the video posted by the pro-life outlet iFamNews.

“But the United States has always had the leadership for democracy and democracy doesn’t work when there is no respect of basic rights of life and personal integrity of your body and your liberty,” the cardinal continued. “We are citizens of the states and not serfs of some ideological leaders.”

“This is not acceptable and this is a scandal. They are making America ridiculous in the eyes of society,“ he said.

Müller compared the actions of the FBI to the “Chinese Communist police” and questioned, “How could it happen in a democratic state where natural law is the basis of the decisions of the American nation?”

“Therefore as a Catholic bishop and Roman Catholic cardinal, I condemn these actions against non-armed families, against children; it’s threatening for children, terrorizing them,” he said. “There is no reason and no justification for this brutal action against these peaceful families.”

Müller questioned how Western nations can speak out against Putin’s war in Ukraine “when we are doing the same things that are threatening the children. How is this possible?”

“I hope that the American government will apologize for this brutal act against humanity,” he said.

“Amen,” Mark Houck responded.

Müller is seen in the video giving Houck, his wife, and his children a blessing.

Speaking briefly, Mark Houck said that when the FBI showed up at his house in full force to arrest him, his only desire was to protect his children.

“Do whatever you want to me, but don’t hurt them,” Houck said. He added that his children are “the real victims in all of this.”

“But we claim victory in Christ. We claim victory in Jesus,” he said.

“Thank you for bringing Cardinal Müller to be with us today, to bless our family, to declare that this was wrong and that this is evil, and that we have his full support,” Houck said in the video.

Houck has pleaded not guilty to two alleged violations of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. A trial date is set for Jan. 24 in Philadelphia.

Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has voiced criticism of the Synodal Way in Germany. On Oct. 6 he appeared on EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo and spoke about the Church’s Synod on Synodality.


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5 Comments

  1. “Persecution of the good people is always a sign of the beginning of dictatorship and tyranny” (Cardinal Müller). Would that our bishops and cardinals were as forthright as Müller. Perhaps, government [this present regime] wouldn’t act with such impunity. Perhaps initiate a political conversion back to Constitutional principles and justice.

  2. The closing line to this article gives the link to Cardinal Muller’s remarks about today’s deformed synodality….On this topic, Cardinal Grech is quoted announcing from on high that the Holy Spirit is speaking through the LGBTQ+ “community.”

    Butt, perhaps his synodality is NOT broad enough? Rather than politicized street factions, or even eminent theologians alone, inclusion must not peripheralize historians and anthropologists!

    FIRST, Grech’s birthing of a fabricated church of the Holy Spirit is really very old hat, resembling as it does the theory of Joachim de Fiora (1135-1202 A.D.). Even the Triune God is timebound—moving from the age of the Father (Old Testament), then to the Son (New Testament), then (and now) to be displaced by an unhinged Holy Spirit!

    SECOND, as Cardinal Muller explains, this new displacement of the incarnate Christ is akin to the old heresies; he names Arianism.

    A spinoff of Arianism was Nestorianism and in Arabia this heresy might be as close as some street prophet named Muhammad ever came to the Christianity that he absorbed into his own fiction. The Islamic fiction is that the Greek Bible contains a key translation error, that “paraclete” (Pentecost, as foretold by Christ) now is corrected by Islamic scholars to read “periclyte,”—the Greek form of Ahmad, another name for Muhammad! Christ, then, is a mere prophet foretelling the coming of Muhammad.

    THIRD, likewise, the traditional Church, as well articulated by Cardinal Muller, also becomes only a midwife, now pointing to Grech’s church of the LGBTQ+/Holy Spirit.
    Instead of Muhammad’s alleged private revelations beginning on Mount Hara, we have from Cardinal Wretch, the alleged private revelation of the LGBTQ+ bedroom! And, instead of conquest by jihad, we have conquest by a media/synodal “plebiscite” (Muller’s brilliant summary) ushered-in by self-neutered bishops (successors of the apostles) as mere “facilitators” (immams?) at local and national synodal block parties.

    The catch-all “People of God,” now reduced to an alphabetical congeries of private interests, just as the worldwide Muslim “ummah” is a congeries of many disparate nations. As with the Qur’anic “word made book” displacing the “Word made flesh”—we now have the LGBTQ+ mouthings as the “Holy Spirit made us.”

    So, historically and anthropologically, a “pluralism of religions,” anyone? The greatest shell game of all time!. Who is this standup comic, this Wretch from Malta?

    • Within your circumlocutory considerations, one might suppose that Jesus was left outside the door!

      Is it fun playing church? We both might look to Muller as a fitting guide to celebrate Jesus!

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