Vatican City, Jul 16, 2019 / 07:27 am
That the working document for October's Synod of Bishops calls the Amazon region a source of revelation is a "false teaching," Cardinal Gerhard Mueller said Tuesday.
If in the Instrumentum laboris of the Amazon synod, "a certain territory is being declared to be a 'particular source of God's Revelation,' then one has to state that this is a false teaching," the German cardinal said.
"For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has infallibly taught that Holy Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are the only sources of Revelation and that no further Revelation can be added in the course of history," he clarified.
Mueller's analysis was simultaneously provided to CNA's sister agency CNA Deutsch and several other news outlets, July 16. The working document for the special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region, which will take place in October, was published June 17.