Source: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/07/16/full-text-of-cardinal-muellers-analysis-on-the-working-document-of-the- (9/20/19)
Muller again doesn't oppose married priests but rather attempts to abolish priestly celibacy. The full text of Muller's analysis is cited above, but the only time he addresses the married priests issue is to sound the alarm that the hidden agenda w having married priests in the Latin rite is to abolish celibacy.
The ONLY time Cardinal Muller mentions celibacy is in the context of defending it but it is not a direct opposition to married priests. The excerpt appears as follows:
"Besides these striking statements and references, the organization Rete Ecclesiale Panamazzonica (REPAM) – which has been tasked with the preparation of the IL and which was founded for that very reason in 2014 – as well as their authors of the so-called Theologia india[Indian Theology] mostly quote themselves.
It is a closed group of absolutely like-minded people, as can easily be gleaned from the list of participants at pre-synodal meetings in Washington and Rome, and it includes a disproportionately large number of mostly German-speaking Europeans.
This group is immune to serious objections, because such objections could only be based on monolithic doctrinalism and dogmatism, or ritualism (IL 38; 110; 138), as well as on clericalism incapable of dialogue (IL 110), and on the rigid way of thinking of the pharisees and on the pride of reason of the scribes. To argue with such people would just be a loss of time and a wasted effort.
Not all of them have direct experience with South America, and are only invited because they toe the official line and determine the agenda at the synodal process of the German bishops’ conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics currently underway (i.e. abolishing celibacy, [ordaining] women to the priesthood and promoting them to key positions of power so as to tackle clericalism and fundamentalism, conforming Catholic sexual morality to gender ideology and an appreciation for homosexual practices) that is simultaneously taking place."
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