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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1 – Benedict XVI abdicates the ministry, something that not being placed according to the same Constitution requires above. If the Pontiff speaks of weariness or the burden of age in order not to continue the exercise of the same ministry, then he would abdicate the Petrine Munus. Here they must seek a logic, therefore, a deepening of this question;
2 – Benedict XVI also speaks to the Cardinals, in his letter to the same College, that the same "Lord show him what he wants", in the docility of the Holy Spirit, about this future conclave, in 2013, of a "new pope"; The word is in customary use among Catholics, but canonically not expressed in canonical matters.
Finally, we hope that all of this can be understood by them, a real beginning of a new journey of faith that the Lord so desires.