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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So this fact cannot be overlooked in order to arrive with a coherence, for example, in the biblical context.
The disciples fled in fear during the Passion of Christ, but only the Mother of God and St. John the Evangelist remained before the cross of the Lord.
And Benedict XVI did not flee and remained faithful, with his white robes and apostolic blessings, until his death to this call of the Lord.
So we can look further into the canonical context according to this fact and this biblical truth.
The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis makes this invalid abdication clearer in articles 76 and 77. Benedict XVI, a leading legislator in the same Constitution, abdicates the ministry in favor of the Petrine Munus. He knows that you can't give up like that.
So, logically, one must have recourse to canon 334, which must be analyzed in order to understand the null action of it.
Because there is a coherence in Benedict XVI's gesture with a historical fact among the popes. For example, Pope Pius VII, with the imprisonment imposed by Napoleon, he was forced to send letters to the faithful through a person close to him. Obviously, he didn't have the freedom to express himself.
I prefer to trust in the voice of the Spirit of Christ, in the example of Benedict and Peter, who cast their nets into "deeper waters" (Luke 5:4-80).
1 – the correct passage is Luke, chapter five, verses four through ten;
2 - In a recent comment, but in the same context, I commented that St. Nicodemus during the Passion of Christ fled out of fear, in the same example as the other disciples. But Nicodemus had no need to flee: he was still maturing discipleship by Jesus secretly for fear of the Sanhedrin of the Jews.