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Cardinal Muller: Push for lay homilies stems from denial of ‘sacramental priesthood’

The Church’s teaching on this matter of the duties reserved to the priesthood is not a mere invention of recent times, but dates to “the very beginning.”

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Michael Haynes
Jun 25, 2026
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VATICAN CITY (PerMariam) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has added his voice to the Vatican’s in opposing a move by the German bishops to have lay people delivering homilies during Mass.

“One cannot arbitrarily divide up priestly powers and outsource them in a functionalist manner,” he warned, “unless one denies the sacramental priesthood altogether in a Prote…

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