[gbcdoj]

"He was a student of the heretical existentialist Jacques Maritain. "

Maritain was not a heretic.

[dsc]

"Maritain was not a heretic."

I sometimes address comments to the wrong people, too.

[Siobhan]

The use of "heretic" is a particular term. Maritain was never declared a heretic. But his late in life final writing about "Hell being empty" -- to sum in it up in a nut shell -- well, those ideas were assuredly not orthodox and were remarkably irresponsible for a Catholic theologian who has no right or privilege to invent doctrine contrary to the Magisterium.

On another sour note, Maritain and Saul Alinsky were commrades.