Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith, is one of the most prominent Catholic figures today. As a leading
cardinal inside the Vatican, he has a privileged perspective on the worldwide
state of the Church and on the most pressing theological, doctrinal, and moral
questions of our times, which he strives to answer in this interview in clear and
inspiring terms, as did his predecessor Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in The
Ratzinger Report.
What are these questions? What do their answers call forth from the believer?
Many people today do not see the lack of faith as a major problem in their lives;
rather, what worries them profoundly is the lack of hope. The key questions
therefore involve hope and whether the Christian faith as articulated by the
Catholic Church can offer it.
This interview with Cardinal Müller therefore takes hope as its basic
subject. It is a "report on hope", that is, an in-depth discussion of hope in relation
to faith and love, truth and mercy; in relation to Jesus Christ and the Catholic
Church; and in relation to the family and the demands of contemporary
society.
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