OK—
Good for reading. What he said was not actually heretical—merely, in the words of good old-fashioned dogmatic theology—”ill sounding to pious ears.”
Actually, after reading post 5, I should practice my reading. I also pulled down my copy of Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma for my tri-annual look at the 20+ degrees of Theological Certainty/Theological censure that run from fides divina to propositio haeretica. Offensive to Pious ears is not quite near the middle, as I had thought, but solidly in the midst of the third quartile from the top,which also includes:
Propositions exciting scandal; Captious (Ambiguous) Proposition; Proposition Badly Expressed (i.e. subject to misunderstanding) and a Temerarious Proposition—deviating without reason from the general teaching.