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Re 35: I don't believe anyone has accused SSPX of being heretical. As critical of them as I have been I see them as plainly schismatic not heretical. I know of no one who has ever made a credible charge of heresy against SSPX. With regards your litany of charges against the late pontiff, that vast majority of those do not constitute anything more serious that poor taste. Admittedly, a few are cause for concern. But the only one that could really come close to a formal statement of heresy would be your # 6. And that may have been the result of an excess of enthusiasm. If we are all to be burned at the stake every time we state something regarding the faith that is false either through ignorance or an ill advised enthusiasm then there will be a lot of human torches. This does not however excuse his comments. I think JP II was often scandalously casual in his obligation to defend the truth of the Catholic Faith in relation to other confessions. But I simply do not see that as rising to formal heresy. Most of your litany of alleged sins do not even come close to heresy, and in my opinion none actually meet the definition. "Any baptized person who, while retaining the name of Christian, obstinately denies or doubts any of the truths proposed for belief by the Divine and Catholic Faith".

Finally I would also point out that the Pontiff is according to canon law the supreme authority in the Church. He is as such not subject to the judgments of others.