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To: Aquinasfan
Havoc writes:

REPOST to fix broken link:

Sure, I can give you Both: Papal Bull Exsurge Domine issued by Leo X on June 15, 1520. Note point number 33. This is binding on you right now. It has never been recanted (as if the Roman church would recant on this matter and admit to a further error on a matter of faith and morals without handwringing and doubletalk).

Thus, to this day, You cannot say that burning heretics is against the will of the Holy Spirit as a Catholic without being labeled a heretic officially.

Sigh... AF, Vatican Council II proclaims in Dignitatis Humanae, Article 2 concerning religous freedom:

"Freedom of this kind means that all men should be immune from coercion on the part of individuals, social groups and every human power so that, within due limits, nobody is forced to act against his convictions in religious matters in private or in public, alone or in association with others."

Of course, that may not satisfy some that the Church did not "recant" to satisfy a few on FreeRepublic. The statement that one cannot say that "burning heretics" is against the will of the Holy Spirit and be labeled a heretic "officially" (whatever that means), is nonsense.

256 posted on 11/24/2002 10:07:57 AM PST by Fury
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To: SoothingDave
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257 posted on 11/24/2002 10:08:33 AM PST by Fury
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