In a statement to CNA, Catholic University said that Rist does not speak for the university, and underscored his limited role there. The letter does not call for a canonical action to be taken against the pope, despite insisting that he has committed the delict of heresy, instead, the authors ask the bishops of the world to "admonish" the pope and cause him to formally "abjure" his alleged heresies.Īmong the signatories of the letter are some prominent Catholics, including Professor John Rist,a research professor in philosophy at the Catholic University of America, where he previously held the Father Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Chair in Philosophy. While the letter makes numerous references to the "canonical delict of heresy," only one of the signatories is listed as having a licentiate in canon law. Pope Francis: Treat others with dignity, not as objects Read article "I cannot understand how one could accuse the pope of heresy based on low-level appointments forwarded to him for pro-forma approval or on vestiture given to him to use for a liturgy." Thomas Petri, O.P., Petri, vice president and academic dean at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, told CNA that the letter is"frankly disappointing." The letter also suggests that a cross and staff used by the pope during the 2018 Synod on Young People liturgies were respectively "satanic" and proof of a pro-homosexual agenda.įr. The letter also references a number of bishops, cardinals, and priests whom the authors claim are themselves heretical and the pope either appointed or allowed to remain in office, as further proof of the Holy Father's "heresy." The letter highlights what the signatories believe to be problematic passages from the pope's 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, especially concerning Catholics in irregular marital situations.Īmong specific heretical beliefs the letter accuses the pope of holding is the position that a Catholic can, with full knowledge of divine law, violate that law and not be in a state of grave sin. The complaints focus on supposed teachings of the pope concerning sexuality and morality which they claim run contrary to the Church's magisterium.
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