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Are Pope Francis' Teachings Not Based on Catholic Doctrine Founded on Divine Revelation?

Vatican expert Sandro Magister, on his Chiesa website May 19, allowed Fr. Giovanni Scalese, former professor of philosophy and rector at the Collegio alla Querce in Florence to explain Pope Francis thinking in the article " The four postulates of Pope Francis ." Magister's overviews of it says: "Scalese observes among other things that by virtue of these historicist, Hegelian-tinged postulates, Pope Francis continuously argues against the abstractness of “doctrine,” contrasting it with a “reality” to which one must adapt. As if forgetting that reality, if it is not illuminated, guided, ordered by a doctrine, 'risks turning into chaos.'” The article by former professor of philosophy says the postulates of Pope Francis’ thought are: "- time is greater than space; - unity prevails over conflict - realities are more important than ideas - the whole is greater than the part. "In 'Evangelii Gaudium' 221, Francis calls them “princip...

Will a Council Anathema Pope Francis as Pope Honorius I was by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680?

Amoris Laetitia in it's ambiguity parallels that of Pope Honorius I's document which was not issued in a manner of a dogmatic (ex cathedra) teaching. As Pope Francis did with ambiguity on Kasper's errors, Honorius allowed the Monothelitism heresy to confuse and spread by not clearly teaching Christ had both a divine will and a human will. The heretics taught Jesus has only one will, the divine will. Kasper's heresy teaches that those in adulterous second marriages who are committing mortal sin can commit the sacrilege of receiving Holy Communion. Honorius was anathematized by name along with the Monothelites by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680: "And with these we define that there shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to [Patriarch] Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctri...