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- He also sees the controversy of Bergoglio's election, putting it in a speculative and mistaken way, exchanging an ecclesiastical problem, Code of Canon Law 331, for one of vice that is only justified by the lack of consensus on one or the other part of the spouses to make it so valid or not, but in the Sacrament of Matrimony, number 1159;
2 - Indirectly, he does not see an effective canonical solution in the Universal Church because of the same "vice of consensus";
3 - But when the interviewer asks about a solution, he points to a gradual change in the Church through the Exsurge Domine, the foundation he founded.