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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Bergoglio was never pope because he was a foreign body within the Church whose divine providence definitively separated him from it. An example to understand this is Tyconius, whom Benedict XVI liked to remind him of:
"Augustine read this comment [by Tyconius] and took advantage of it, but he strongly stressed that the Church is in the hands of Christ, remains his Body, forming with Him a single subject, participating in the mediation of grace. Therefore, it underlines that the Church can never be separated from Jesus Christ."
Therefore, the Church is in this situation in the desert today. And this is where the Universo Dominici Gregis comes in, articles 76 and 77, with the non-abdication of the Munus petrinum by Ratzinger; Catholics are entrusted to the same providence, the continuity of which in the succession of St. Peter in the Church will remain.
Of course, choices will always have consequences, as every decision will have consequences for good or bad. But it is a call to embrace the cross spontaneously in order to actively participate in the same divine providence in the Church of Christ. Therefore, it is a purpose for good.