Theologians, cardinals defend pope’s theology in wake of heresy charge
Claire Giangravè
May 9, 2019
ROME - In the wake of an April 30 open letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy signed by 19 clergymen and scholars, demanding the pontiff’s resignation, theologians and cardinals at a conference in Rome on Wednesday instead praised Francis’s theology and magisterium.
Lionel: These cardinals and theologians do not deny that the present two popes use an irrational premise and inference, like them, to magisterial documents, to create a rupture with Tradition.This is first class heresy since the understanding of the Creeds is changed and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) and the Athanasius Creed is rejected.Again this is formal and obstinate persistent in heresy. The evidence is there on line for all to verify.
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“Pope Francis is the pope, and when he speaks it’s magisterium,” Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, told Crux after the event.
Lionel: This is false.Pope Francis is the pope and when he formally teaches heresy it is to be rejected. St. Maximilliam Kolbe would say that if a superior teaches heresy one is not to obey him.
The present two popes interpret invisible cases of the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance as being physically visible exceptions to the traditional interpretation of EENS. This is an objective error. It is human error. This cannot be the work of the Holy Spirit.So it cannot be magisterial.The error needs to be corrected and EENS affirmed like the missionaries and Magisterium of the 16th century.
The present two popes interpret hypothetical cases LG, 8, LG 14,LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc in Vatican Council II as being objective exceptions to Feeneyite EENS in 2019. This is irrational. There are no practical exceptions to EENS mentioned in Vatican Council II. This is human error. It cannot be magisterial. It is a mistake made by the popes.It ends in heresy. It is persisted in. Vatican Council II is always interpreted as a rupture with EENS and the past ecclesiology. This is obstinate heresy.
The same mistake is made by the cardinals including Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, for whom dogmas and doctrines develop, with the use of a false premise and inference.
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The symposium, called “Theology and Magisterium in the Church with Pope Francis,” took place May 8 in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University to present a new collection of books titled The Theological Seeds of Francis.
Lionel: The theological seed of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict is based on a lie, a deception. It is based on an irrationality.Now after 50 years we have found out the missing link. We know what makes Vatican Council II a continuity with Tradition or a rupture. We simply avoid the false premise and inference used by the two popes.Then there is no more a heretical and non traditional conclusion.
This is something very difficult and painful for me to mention. I am only a lay man.
I know that there are mortal sins of faith and there is heresy based upon faith and salvation. This area of the Church's teachings has not been covered by the Open Letter to the Bishops.
Jimmy Akins in his defence of Pope Francis may say that I am not an academic or authority on this or that subject.But one thing, I do know : it is that invisible people are not visible in 2019.The entire new theology and new doctrines of Pope Benedict and Pope Francis, are based upon this small wrong observation.
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The series of 11 books touches on some of the recurring themes, or “seeds”, present throughout Francis’s pontificate from discernment and reform to neo-gnosticim and integration.
Nineteen conservative critics of Francis released an open letter accusing the pontiff of committing heresy and calling on the world’s bishops to censure him and - if necessary - to declare that he is no longer pope.
Lionel: They were following Pope John Paul II's Veritatis Spendor which says that a mortal sin is always a mortal sin and the outward action indicates the inward intent.We humans cannot judge an exception to manifest mortal sins. An exception known to God only cannot be made the rule( Germany, Malta etc). Also it cannot be assumed that the exception to the moral law, is known to God and to man, in the sense, that we can judge when a case in manifest mortal sin is not a a mortal sin.How can we know when God will judge concubinage not to be concubinage or being divorced and re-married as not being a mortal sin?
So the signatories of the Open Letter were correct. We have heresy and mortal sin.
A mortal sin is a mortal sin and the conditions for the mortal sin mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, can only be known to God, if they are relevant to a person.
There may be new cases like in bio ethics when we have to judge but in the general traditional categories adultery, divorce, concubinage etc, a mortal sin is a mortal sin.
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In a message to the event, Italian Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, looked at how Francis’s documents and speeches depict a renewed path for theologians that is rooted in reality.
Lionel: On the contrary : when unknown people are assumed to be known exceptions to the traditional interpretation of EENS this is a loss of reality.
Similarly when invisible and hypothetical cases mentioned in Vatican Council II are assumed to be practical exceptions to EENS, even when they do not exist, is a loss of reality. This is fantasy theology.
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“The ease with which the texts and documents of Pope Francis can be read must not fool people or lead them to hurried conclusions,” he said.
“His thought is not at all improvised, but the fruit of a deep and lively theological reflection drawn from his experience as a pastor and theologian.”
According to Father Maurizio Gronchi, professor of Christology at the Urbaniana Pontifical University, the impact of Francis’s style could be compared to the 13th century introduction in Italy of the Dolce Stil Nuovo literary style, due to its poetic and emotional charge.
“Francis’s approach is elliptic, and gravitates around two permanent hearts, the heart of man and the heart of the gospel,” Gronchi said.
Lionel: This is all rhetorical. The fact is that the pope uses a false premise and inference to interpret Vatican Council II and all magisterial documents. There is something very wrong here even a school boy would notice.
Anyway there has been no denial.I have been saying this for a few years now.I have referred to it as magisterial heresy, for want of a better term.The heresy is not magisterial. The magisterium cannot be heretical.
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Citing Francis’s March speech to theologians at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, Bassetti said the pope is trying to “teach theologians a style” that draws them away from their ivory towers and into real life.
Lionel: To assume theoretical cases of Lumen Gentium 8 etc are objective exceptions to the past exclusive ecclesiology of the Church is deception. To continue with this deception even after being informed is not Catholic. It is not even ethical according to secular standards.
Yet this was the theology presented by Cardinal Ladaria at the Placquet Deo Press Conference last year and Pope Francis and Pope Benedict approved it.
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“I know that one can study by closing himself in academic circles with no air, playing with concepts rather than interpreting life, clutching to formulas but distancing oneself from the real existence of people,” Francis said at the March 26 event calling for “a radical paradigm change” and “a brave cultural revolution.”
Lionel: There cannot be a paradigm shift in theology based upon there being practical exceptions to EENS .For us humans there are no such cases.
There cannot be a paradigm shift on Vatican Council II when the pope refuses to admit that the Council supports the strict interpretation of EENS, when the deception is avoided.
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According to Bassetti, Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the environment Laudato Si is an example of his pragmatic and concrete approach.
“The pope exhorts and invites theologians humbly but with force to take their duty seriously and begin that journey that Pope Francis himself has already begun,” he said.
The Italian prelate also emphasized the strong connection between the magisterium of Francis and the theological heritage of the Second Vatican Council.
Lionel: He means Vatican Council II interpreted with references to non existing people in the present times assumed to be existing.He means with subjectivity mistaken as objectivity.So the result is first class heresy.The evidence is there on line.
I do not like having to point this out. I wish someone else would have done this. I respect the pope and the cardinals. But the error has to be identified for the good of the Church. It can then be corrected.I do not want to be a critic. But when something invisible is assumed to be visible and then conclusions are made upon this premise, it is bad philosophy. It is not Catholic philosophy.
To say that there is salvation outside the Church and that this is the New Theology, when there are no known cases of salvation outside the Church for us humans, is bad theology. It is not Catholic theology. It cannot be magisterial. It is human error.
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Theologians speaking at the symposium agreed that this connection is crucial to understanding this pontificate.
Lionel: They all interpret Vatican Council II, with the false premise.They use Cushingism as a theology instead of rational Feeneyism.They are part of the problem.
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“In this moment, the fundamental thoughts of the Second Vatican Council have a chance to take hold like never before,” said Dario Vitali, director of the Department of Dogmatic Theology at the Gregorian.
Lionel : Vatican Council II can be interpreted with Feeneyism or Cushingism and the interpretation changes. Cushingism creates the hermeneutic of rupture. This is the interpretation of the two popes. It is based upon a factual error. It violates the Principle of Non Contradiction.This cannot be the Magisterium.
Magisterium means the teaching authority of the Catholic Church guided by the Holy Spirit, guided by God. How can God make a factual and objective error ?
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While cautioning against those who would like to see in Francis a theologian, Vitali said that his magisterium contains “theological informarions.”
“Some dare to treat this magisterium as if it were an opinion,” he said, pointing the finger at economic and traditionalist lobbies.
Pierangelo Sequeri, one of the curators of the new books and Director of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II, also criticized those who vocally oppose Francis’ pontificate during his speech.
“Those who always repeat the same old song don’t honor the revelation,” he said making an analogy with music, “but those who think that everything you play is music, are greatly mistaken.”
According to Sequeri there is a need for a better formation of theologians capable of interpreting and deepening the knowledge of the Gospel and the understanding of the Catholic faith.
“The world of ecclesiastic chatter is inhabited by weak nobodies who act as if they are Pope Gregory the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventura,” he added.
Theologians are called to bring new life and enthusiasm to the Church, he continued, which has become “excessively melancholic” and therefore prone to aggression and polarization.
Lionel : We are not allowed to bring this newness, this revolution, this new revelation into the Church by using a lie.We cannot fake it with objective error. With this deceptive way the old theology of EENS is rejected and something new is created. Upon this false theological innovation we now have the New Ecumenisn, New Theology, New Ecclesiology and New Evangelisation.
For discerning Catholics this is all deception and it cannot be the work of the Holy Spirit.
-Lionel Andrades
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