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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But let us read carefully what "Pastor Aeternus" says:
"(...) if anyone asserts that the Roman Pontiff has simply a task of inspection or direction, and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church, not only with regard to faith and morals, but also with regard to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the earth; or that it be invested only with the principal role and not the whole plenitude of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not common and direct both over all individual Churches and over each believer and pastor: let him be anathema."
There is no contradiction in God, because He is coherence. And God is goodness. Someone cannot restrict this, much less, put a control on God as something harmful. Because the person vetoing the author of grace, who inspired Pope Pius IX on these teachings, the Holy Spirit, sins gravely against the same Spirit.