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Popes can err slightly but cannot profess formal heresy
The Daily Knight ^ | October 11, 2024 | David Martin

Posted on 10/11/2024 6:39:56 PM PDT by ebb tide

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So, we need to ask ourselves: does a pope’s "comprehensive rejection of Catholic teaching on marriage and sexual activity, on the moral law, and on grace and the forgiveness of sins" make him a heretic? Is a pope a heretic if he denies the miracle of the loaves, that God founded the Roman Catholic Church, that God does not will diversity of religions, that evolution is a myth, that homosexuality is a crime, that doctrine never changes, that Hell is a distinct place of eternal punishment, that unrepentant souls are condemned forever, and that Jews need conversion to Christ to be saved?
1 posted on 10/11/2024 6:39:56 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Even Peter was chastised by Paul.................


2 posted on 10/11/2024 6:43:37 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ebb tide
Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/bon08/b8unam.htm

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Something a lot of Roman Catholics run from or try to dismiss.

Yet, we see the daily posts against the duly elected pope of the RCC by you.

This strongly says you are not being subject to the pope.

3 posted on 10/11/2024 6:49:39 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: All
"Popes can err slightly but cannot profess formal heresy"

Jorge Mario Bergoglio says just watch me.

4 posted on 10/11/2024 6:54:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I may have flunked high school but the pigeons have accepted me as their leader, so I have that.)
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To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Ping


5 posted on 10/11/2024 6:56:46 PM PDT by ebb tide ("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "ideology" of the modernists.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s correct.


6 posted on 10/11/2024 6:56:57 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

What then shall we say of Pope Francis?


After reading this article, I can only conclude that bears are Catholic and popes crap in the woods.....................

The world is also downside up.


7 posted on 10/11/2024 6:58:54 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ebb tide
Thinking some insight into this paradox might just be contained in Thessalonians chapter 2 in particular
8 posted on 10/11/2024 7:10:29 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ebb tide
Ebb, I know my not being Catholic lends to my comments on all things Catholic to be of lesser value, but I have said something similar to you in passing and it feels as though it bears repeating ..."profess that God works through other religions and remain pope". This line of reasoning seems to explicitly confirm that Bergoglio is neither Pope
9 posted on 10/11/2024 7:39:16 PM PDT by Spacetrucker ("You Missed,BI*CH" Tom MacDonald )
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To: ebb tide

... nor even Catholic but a heretic in truth.


10 posted on 10/11/2024 7:40:37 PM PDT by Spacetrucker ("You Missed,BI*CH" Tom MacDonald )
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To: ebb tide

Well, SOMEBODY erred big time hiring this dude.


11 posted on 10/11/2024 7:56:57 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ebb tide

In short, Bergoglio has indeed professed heresy and is therefore not the Pope. The Church is in crisis.


12 posted on 10/11/2024 7:58:14 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: ealgeone

So if this headline is true, then Catholics have no excuse for rejecting their current pope, Francis.


13 posted on 10/11/2024 8:24:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: ebb tide

seems to me we’re well into heresy country with this Pope


14 posted on 10/11/2024 8:31:17 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: metmom

Sounds right to me.

This guy is creating his own religion!!!!!!

He must be vacated.


15 posted on 10/11/2024 8:34:04 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: All

Pretty similar to weather forecasters, heresy being denial of climate change. ;)


16 posted on 10/11/2024 11:39:46 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: ebb tide

IOW - if a “Pope” commits heresy, it ain’t really heresy - just like the “Christian” leaders way back when who accused and killed others for doing what they were doing themselves.

The “Church” has a history that rivals the Muslims...


17 posted on 10/12/2024 5:11:18 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: ebb tide; .45 Long Colt; Apple Pan Dowdy; BDParrish; Big Red Badger; BlueDragon; boatbums; ...
St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, makes it clear: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic automatically ceases to be a Pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.”

So how is heretical Bergoglio judged and punished by the Church, aside from laity essentially acting as evangelicals are to (insofar as making the validity and veracity of modern church teaching subjecting to their judgment of conformity with past church teaching), and a few traditional prelates?

It’s important to point out that the foregoing statements by the Church Doctors and theologians are not theological opinions but reflect the continuous teaching of the Church. If anyone would doubt this, let them consider the 1559 Papal Bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio by Pope Paul IV.

Which also states,

(ii) Anysoever who (which may God, in His clemency and goodness to all, deign to avert) shall in the future so deviate or fall into heresy, or incur schism, or shall provoke or commit either or both of these
Which presumes in Catholicism that there is a judge who determines who has fallen into heresy, or incured schism, or provokes or commit either or both of these.

Papal Bulls do not contain opinions but are formal and authoritative proclamations containing weighty and indisputable truths.

Which, perhaps to the delight of some here, would include Ad extirpanda, a papal bull promulgated on May 15, 1252, by Pope Innocent IV, which explicitly authorized (and defined the appropriate circumstances for) the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics.

Yet, "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." - PIUS XII, HUMANI GENERI. Which presumes you have a pope to submit to, in order to obey such past papal teaching on submission such as:

'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)

Thus the question remains, just who is the living pope that you submit to while an elected pope sits on his throne? This absence is not like that of the interregnum period btwn popes, but one in which the college of cardinals has elected one, without a rival papacy by another college (aside from the likes of a (late) pope Michael - elected in a small conclave in Kansas in 199) as in the Western Schism. I presume that since "100% of the cardinals who entered the conclave in 2013 were named cardinals by St. John Paul II or Pope Benedict XVI and they elected Pope Francis" then they would be considered to be invalid by the TradCath sedevacantist magisterium.

As would be any such replacement since "if a conclave were held Dec. 9 and no cardinal elector dies before then, almost 79% of the cardinals entering the Sistine Chapel would be clerics given their red hats by Pope Francis." - https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/statistically-speaking-how-popes-choices-change-college-cardinals

Sounds like another Schism by a minority, not that I do not sympathize with them, as one of the sedevacantists who also make the validity and veracity of modern church teaching subjecting to their judgment of conformity with past church teaching, but that being the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels) in which distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest.

18 posted on 10/12/2024 5:59:55 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Red Badger
Even Peter was chastised by Paul.................

Yes, which even led others astray, (Galatians 2:11-13) but as you know, papal infallibility is restricted in scope and subject criteria, and does not mean impeccability.

19 posted on 10/12/2024 6:02:59 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: ealgeone
Something a lot of Roman Catholics run from or try to dismiss.

Which is why the validity of Bergo is attacked.

20 posted on 10/12/2024 6:04:46 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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