I’m amazed at the number of Catholics who continue to run interference for this nut job....Bergoglio needs to resign ASAP. To me, he’s the Catholics’ “Obama” and he’s a freaking disaster!
Gregory of Narek, while certainly a very holy man, was outside of communion with Rome, and also was a heretic, namely a Miaphysitite...
Miaphysitism holds that Christ has only one nature, which contains both a divine character and a human character. Miaphysitism is the heresy held by what are referred to today as the Oriental Orthodox churches, which includes among others the Armenians and also the Copts in Egypt...
While there have been and are holy people in these Oriental Orthodox churches, and let us certainly put at the head of that list for purposes of this explanation both Gregory of Narek AND the 21 Coptic martyrs who died on the Libyan beach just last week with the Most Holy Name of Jesus on their lips, we cannot permit sentimentality to subvert truth...
Not relevant as their support for intrinsic evils is public. Therefore a public recant or apologize would be necessary. I would imagine that absolution would be contingent on public statements/apologies for their errors.