Lux Lucet

In short, no.

In the first place, Christians should understand that any man who willingly serves the Antichrist RCCS system clearly is not to be trusted. As Jesus put it, “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.  In the context of this verse, we should understand fruit as meaning “doctrine.”  The words of false prophets are not to be trusted. Cardinal Mueller, because he is a high-ranking official in the Antichrist RCCS, is a false prophet. Therefore, his words – including his words about fighting globalism – are not to be trusted.  

In the second place, there is the curious case of the Cardinal’s résumé.  According to the article, Mueller, “once headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).”  That sounds innocent enough.  But the CDF is a new name for a very old organization within the RCCS.  It was originally established in 1542 as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition.  According to this article from History.com, its original task was “to combat Protestant heresy,” or to put it more accurately, to combat the Biblical doctrine of Justification by Belief Alone.   

The History.com article also notes the work of the Roman and Universal Inquisition influenced the work of the Spanish Inquisition, both prompting the Spanish church to draft a list of prohibited books modeled after a list first drawn up by the Roman and Universal Inquisition and causing the Spanish Inquisition to focus its efforts on “the rising population of Spanish Protestants in the 1550s.” 

The Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects it. But here it is, albeit in a roundabout way, right in the Cardinal’s CV.

His anti-globalist rhetoric notwithstanding, there is no reason for Protestants to trust Mueller’s intentions or to join with him in opposing the globalist pretensions of Gates, Soros, and Schwab.  These guys are bad actors to be sure.  But Mueller does not bring the doctrine of Christ, so to join with him is to share in his sins, including the sins of the Spanish Inquisition.

Another aspect that’s interesting about the case of Cardinal Mueller is that he is not the first high-ranking church official to speak out against globalism.  In a recent post on this blog, I wrote about Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano and his push to forge an ecumenical alliance to fight globalism.  Archbishop Robert Sarah has taken a similar stand on globalism to Mueller and Vigano.  What are Christians to make of this?  One possibility is that this is a “good cop-bad cop” ploy by the RCCS.  Have certain high-ranking Church officials come out in feigned opposition to the globalism of Pope Francis.  Doing this gives RCCS an almost Janus-faced look where it appears to be on both sides of the globalist issue.  Another possibility is that, while there are real differences of opinion among officials of the Church, the RCCS permits public disagreement to the same end, namely, to appear to be on both sides of the issue.  There are, of course, other possibilities, but these two seem to me to be among the more likely ones.  Ultimately, there is zero chance that the RCCS will take a stand in support of the WWO and against globalism, as to do so would be to set back the Church’s ambitions for world government.     

But while it should be obvious to Christians that they ought not to join in ecumenical alliances with Roman Catholic Cardinals, even to advance good causes such as opposing globalism, in today’s world it is anything but obvious.       

As a case in point, one of the more popular articles I’ve written on this blog is a piece from 2015 titled “Must Christians Defend the Inquisition?” That post was inspired by an appearance of Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress on the O’Reilly Factor, in which Jeffress, of all things!, defended the Spanish Inquisition.  Good grief!  I never thought I see the day when a Baptist minister would try to downplay centuries of torture and murder by the Antichrist RCCS, but there Jeffress was, defending the indefensible live and on national television.

Instead of trying to downplay the severity of the Inquisition, Jeffress should have pointed out the horrors of it, how it was contrary to the teaching of the Scriptures, and how it was carried out, not by a Christian church, but by the system of Antichrist, the Roman Catholic Church-State, a system that explicitly denies the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It was a golden opportunity for Jeffress to draw a distinction between the Biblical doctrine of Justification by Belief Alone as has been historically taught in believing Baptist churches and the false faith/works gospel of Rome.  But Jeffress blew in, and in so doing, confused his audience, yoked himself unequally with unbelievers, and shared in their heinous sins of the Inquisition.   

Abortion is another area that has borne much evil fruit for Rome in its attempt to woo Protestants into ecumenical alliances.  Christians are right to be concerned about abortion.  But many times, putatively Bible-believing ministers have encouraged their congregations to participate, and themselves have participated, in ecumenical pro-life activities with Romanists, heedless of how their words and actions compromise the gospel of Christ. 

Writing to the Ephesians, Paul told them, “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”  Opposing globalism, Covid tyranny and abortion are good works and Christians do well to stand against them.  But it is of no value, in fact, it is positively sinful, to speak out against abortion or to fight the globalists if while at the same time we compromise the gospel by yoking in ministry with the representatives of Antichrist.    

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