Did Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) say that Francis is a heretic ? On June 3, 2003 the then Cardinal Ratzinge r (and future Pope Benedict) , head of the Congregation for the Faith, said that the endorsement of " homosex civil unions" was against Catholic teaching, that is heterodoxy : "Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimatization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil... The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions ." (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Considerations Regarding Proposals to give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons," June 3, 2003) Gloria.tv reported: " Francis made on October 21 his latest declaration in sup...
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An Imperfect Council!
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Ivan
He justifies this through the creation of his Catholic foundation, similar to the Society of St. Pius X, but without a canonical link with Rome. This means a contempt for any different initiative on the part of other members of the Church.
This is a clear distance from the popes because he presents them as revolutionaries at Vatican II, without showing a more respectful and profound analysis of them, who did not dogmatically define the same council at all.
His view remains always negative.
And he now distances himself from Catholic commentators with positive suggestions for saving the papacy.
The archbishop also distances himself from the faith because he does not mention it once in the article. He thus comes to a grim conclusion: nothing can prevent the destruction of the papacy.
The archbishop's faith, therefore, is bound up with the Sabbath.
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