Anonymous said… I am highly confused. At the end of the article (after making the bold claim that Pope Francis is a heretic)
I am highly confused. At the end of the article (after making the bold claim that Pope Francis is a heretic)
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
The concept of Heresy was indeed developed around 325AD - But 401AD burning "heretics" alive became an official function of the Church. Somehow interpreting "turn the other cheek", "judge not", "resist not evil", "he who is without sin", and "love your enemies" - the most cherished wisdom of Jesus, as "burn anyone who disagrees with the Church to death."
People who were not members of the Catholic Church did not deserve any civil and political rights because they were deemed to be in error. This was called "Error has no rights" - This changed during Vatican II.
rst known usage of the term Heresy in a legal context was in AD 380 by the Edict of Thessalonica of Theodosius I,[15] which made Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Prior to the issuance of this edict, the Church had no state-sponsored support for any particular legal mechanism to counter what it perceived as "heresy". By this edict the state's authority and that of the Church became somewhat overlapping. One of the outcomes of this blurring of Church and state was the sharing of state powers of legal enforcement with church authorities. This reinforcement of the Church's authority gave church leaders the power to, in effect, pronounce the death sentence upon those whom the church considered heretical.
Within six years of the official criminalization of heresy by the Emperor, the first Christian heretic to be executed, Priscillian, was condemned in 386 by Roman secular officials for sorcery, and put to death with four or five followers. Those who possessed writings of Arius were sentenced to death. [The comment has been deleted.
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
When have time will get all Anonymous statements, but want to save in total here:
The concept of Heresy was indeed developed around 325AD - But 401AD burning "heretics" alive became an official function of the Church. Somehow interpreting "turn the other cheek", "judge not", "resist not evil", "he who is without sin", and "love your enemies" - the most cherished wisdom of Jesus, as "burn anyone who disagrees with the Church to death."
People who were not members of the Catholic Church did not deserve any civil and political rights because they were deemed to be in error. This was called "Error has no rights" - This changed during Vatican II.
rst known usage of the term Heresy in a legal context was in AD 380 by the Edict of Thessalonica of Theodosius I,[15] which made Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Prior to the issuance of this edict, the Church had no state-sponsored support for any particular legal mechanism to counter what it perceived as "heresy". By this edict the state's authority and that of the Church became somewhat overlapping. One of the outcomes of this blurring of Church and state was the sharing of state powers of legal enforcement with church authorities. This reinforcement of the Church's authority gave church leaders the power to, in effect, pronounce the death sentence upon those whom the church considered heretical.
Within six years of the official criminalization of heresy by the Emperor, the first Christian heretic to be executed, Priscillian, was condemned in 386 by Roman secular officials for sorcery, and put to death with four or five followers. Those who possessed writings of Arius were sentenced to death. [The comment has been deleted.
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