Does the present Catholic Church Code of Canon Law Excommunicate Francis for his Explicit Heresy of allowing Communion for Adulterers?
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Edward Feser: Popes, heresy, and papal ...
Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
P.S.
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."
P.P.S. - "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html - The Catholic Monitor [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2022/04/the-catholic-monitor-aqua-debate-steven.html]
Does the present Catholic Church Code of Canon Law excommunicate Francis
for his explicit heresy of allowing Communion for adulterers?
The Vatican.va website states:
"Can. 1364 §1. Without prejudice to the prescript of can. 194, §1 , n. 2
an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae
sententiae excommunication; in addition, a cleric can be punished with
the penalties mentioned in can. 1336, §1, nn. 1, 2, and 3."
(www. vatican.va, Code of Canon Law - Book VI - Sanctions in the Church (Cann. 1364-1399))