His Eminence, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, will address the essential role of the Magisterium for the faith and practice of Catholics. 

Cardinal Müller currently serves as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. Pope John Paul II appointed him as Bishop of Regensburg in 2002.  In 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highest doctrinal body in the Church, where he served until 2017. Pope Francis made him a Cardinal of the Church in 2014. He studied philosophy and theology in Mainz, Munich, and Freiburg, and became a Professor of Theology at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich.  



He has published more than 40 books and more than a thousand articles on theological and philosophical topics. Cardinal Müller is the editor-in-chief of the collected works of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI with whom he was a close personal friend. 

MASS: His Eminence is going to celebrate a Solemn Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul on Thursday, September 26, at 12 noon.