[Cronos]

What are you talking about? a heretic is a person who commits heresy, heresy being a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma

That is a simple definition to call any group that breaks away from established beliefs and quite correct to call in many cases.

it is NOT the same as someone proclaiming that Newt is unsaved because he is Catholic. What authority does anyone have to claim that?

[metmom]

What are you talking about? a heretic is a person who commits heresy, heresy being a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma

It's been pretty obvious on these threads that heretic = damned in Catholic thinking and according to official Council of Trent declarations. You know, all those *anathemas* decreed for not agreeing with them?

it is NOT the same as someone proclaiming that Newt is unsaved because he is Catholic. What authority does anyone have to claim that?

Who said Newt was unsaved because he was Catholic?