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HERESY?: Leo XIV: 'Absolute exclusion of the death penalty'... "Dr Edmund Mazza..drawn our attention..article written by Leo XIV, then-Bishop Robert Prevost"


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Anonymous said…
You are promoting a no win situation. How does one proceed if what you say is true? If someone follows your lead on this, and they reject the pope, and you're in error, then you have led someone outside the church. If what you are saying is true then the Gates of Hell prevailed and you made Christ a liar? Lastly, there are many bishops and theologians in the world, none of them have raised your points, and Mazza is pretty much alone, out on a limb, asking for others to join him. No thanks.
Anonymous said…
No one in authority has alleged heresy. No one has had a case of heresy proven or even investigated. And you want people to follow you? Nope, I'll stay in the church, with the pope until proven otherwise.
Fred Martinez said…
It is mind-boggling how these supposedly "conservative" interlocutors of yours (I have just listened to the Timothy Flanders interview)
insist that there is no way to distinguish, and then make that distinction the basis of their own conclusions. They do distinguish--between those like yourself who are willing to contrast Tradition with presemt reality, and those who think that theologically two plus two can equal five, siding philosophically if not politically with the latter. Thus they contend that an elective inability to be rational counts as the authentically Catholic thing to do.

Flanders essentially argues, in other words, that your citation of the "doubtful pope" principle does not apply because we, as Catholics, have no right or standing to doubt anything.

He doubts, in other words, that man is made in the image and likeness of God, endowed with an intellect and will of his own. He gets to doubt, but anyone who disagrees with him does not.

Evidently, it is not only members of the hierarchy who have lost the plot when it comes to the very nature of the Catholic Faith. If we have learned anything from the past twelve years, maybe it's that.


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Fred Martinez said…
The above comment is from a Catholic Monitor reader that destroys your two comments.