Spot the Heresy

Mary’s secret is humility. It is her humility that attracted God’s gaze to her. Today, looking at Mary #assumed into heaven, we can say that humility is the way that leads to Heaven. #Angelus

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) August 15, 2021

Don't Heed St. Paul

This results.

People who do not support the #ordination of #women are "racists," says #German theology professor Johanna #Rahner. #Theology https://t.co/A08EamduiN

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) April 17, 2021

Lord Have Mercy

Hans Küng has died, aged 93. https://t.co/Hr6pLwC2VV

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) April 6, 2021

Fr. Hans Küng lost his license to teach in 1979, after his theological work was found to contain frequent and persistent heresy, including the denial of papal infallibility and opposition to Humane vitae. https://t.co/KnamOAM96n

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) April 6, 2021

Controversial Swiss theologian Hans Küng dies at age 93 https://t.co/KtRlW5WudG via @cnalive

— Matthew Bunson (@MattBunson) April 6, 2021

Roger Haight SJ reflects on the legacy of Hans Küng for @americamag https://t.co/L9aPjvHYhP

— Matt Malone, S.J. (@Americaeditor) April 6, 2021

Defending the Faith Against Present Heresies

New Book about Pope Francis' Pontificate (Arouca Press) - https://mailchi.mp/0eafaddb64dc/defending-the-faith

Posted by Arouca Press on Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Rorate Caeli: Announcing the Publication of Defending the Faith Against Present Heresies

Nouwen and Lentz

It should have been a book written by an Orthodox author instead. I would consider this book worthy of becoming a discard or book-burning.

I had a great 3 hour coffee with my old friend Art Mize this morning and got a book out of the deal. I’m thankful for those who can grasp where I’ve come from and where I’m going. pic.twitter.com/zndwimszaq

— Alan Cornett (@alancornett) January 29, 2021

Heretical Hymnals

“If people have been singing heresy for decades now, it’s no surprise to find out they reject the Church’s teachings on the Eucharist.” —Fr. Peter Stravinskas on the podcasthttps://t.co/Iy9hTyTNH9

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 29, 2021

Fr. Peter Stravinskas joins the podcast to discuss the recent USCCB document “Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics.”https://t.co/aDuZdQ7MZh

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 28, 2021

Rome: "Heresy is Preferable to Schism"

Could this be extended by Latin traditionalists to possible criticisms of Rome's negotiations with the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Orthodox?

For Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the prevailing thinking of German bishops and an increasingly radicalised laity is more akin to modernism than Protestantism but the Vatican won’t issue any serious ultimatum because it wants to "live in peace” https://t.co/tRbtZ3gmLe pic.twitter.com/H6u87d50Fn

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 21, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Such an endorsement by David Bentley Hart casts doubts on his personal orthodoxy, as if his dogmatic speculation on universalism wasn't enough. The description provided for the book and the background of some of the contributors render all those who are contributing suspect, even though some (Fr. Andrew Louth?) may be just presenting "the other side" of the argument. Is this something open for discussion? Do any of the Chalcedonian Orthodox clerics make the claim that the ordination of women to the presbyterate and episcopate is beyond the bounds of discussion and possibility? From the reports I have read, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware has capitaulted and embraced the position that it is open to discussion. Are there any Orthodox bishops willing to cut the innovators off from communion? I suspect the Greeks are too weak to do so.

Wipf and Stock: Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice, eds. Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya

Douglas Farrow on Bishop Schneider's and Archbishop Viganò's Objections Regarding Vatican II

Dethroning Christ? The error at the root of the Viganò controversy (Part I)

Part 2

Farrow seems to admit this much:

Now, surely there is nothing wrong with a document promulgated in a political context being on its way to a political rather than an evangelical end, so long as that end is understood to be proximate rather than ultimate. There’s the rub, however. For the Abu Dhabi Declaration seems to be evangelically deficient in a way no political aim can justify. Its call to “come together in the vast space of spiritual, human and shared social values,” and to do so in such as way as to avoid “unproductive discussions,” might reasonably be taken to rule out the very thing Paul was doing on Mars Hill!

But Farrow cannot get beyond the parameters set by Latin ecclesiology, taken by Latins to be dogma:

When we keep this in mind, we can see more easily that to give the answer we ought to give, the answer we must give if we do not intend to be schismatic – the answer that Vatican II was indeed an authentic ecumenical council, engaged in the work of God and of the magisterium of the Church under God – is not to commit ourselves to the untenable notion that its fathers were uniformly faithful or that its documents, despite the flaws of their authors, were themselves essentially flawless.

As a Latin he must accept the claim by Rome that Vatican II is an ecumenical council. Because he must accept that, he must uphold the hermeneutic of continuity, much as Benedict XVI. Part 2 is better in so far as he responds to certain misconceptions (held by some Latin integralists and Latin traditionalists) regarding nature of the Kingship of Christ.

Interview with Demetrios Tselengides

On the Lack of Distinction Between the Theanthropic Body and the Body of Humanity: the Root of our Problems

~ Interview with Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Demetrios Tselengides

Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN

Link to audio: https://t.co/nhbKPU6et1

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020

“Here is my rhetorical question: With what moral support can the faithful man go to church, when he knows that by going himself he is preventing someone else who wants to go, because they have reached the maximum amount [of attendees]?...(1)
Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020

Fake Synodality

Much of this push to revise the Church’s sexual morality through the Synodal Path is believed to have derived from the thinking of German theologian Father Eberhard Schockenhoff who died suddenly in July aged 67 after falling in his home
https://t.co/1FucUh9z7N @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 3, 2020

No Wine and Song

Sandro Magister: Sex, Women, Power. The Three Challenges Germany Is Issuing To the Church

A Product of Western "Semi-Arianism"?

For contemporary monothelites, by contrast, Jesus’s humanity is firmly in the driver’s seat. To the extent that we may say that Jesus is divine, this is at best a secondary claim, derived from the historical Jesus, the product of a scientific quest.

First Things: Jesus: Less Than Divine by Hans Boersma

Paving the way for the Antichrist?

Not indifferentism exactly, but there is heresy here, and the Rabbi is representing the pope's intention accurately or misrepresenting him, or he has been misled by the pope.

Chalcedonian Orthodox...

Triumphalism? Stubbornness?


The “Smoking Gun” of Non-Chalcedonian Christianity by Fr. Alexander Webster

Has it been established that certain Coptic authorities are monothelites? Or are they being misunderstood, just as their miaphysitism is misunderstood as monophysitism?

Instead of engaging in long-distance polemics, would it not be better to seek face-to-face dialogue with others, or if that is not possible, to abstain from commenting on the ongoing dialogue and wait until the duly-appointed representatives of the various churches have done their work? After all, other Orthodox do recognize that the Oriental, or non-Chalcedonian Orthodox, are not heretical. Should we at least not talk to them and ask them their reasons why, rather than engaging in a hermeneutics of suspicion?





And then there is the so-called "heresy" of ecumenism... when it is the same as relativism or indifference to truth then it should be condemned as such, rather than as "ecumenism." What are we doing to live in accord with Christ's prayer that "they may be one"?

Dyothelitism
Monergism and Monothelitism
Monophysitism Reconsidered

Bad Theology?

Or worse, heretical?

CNA: Holy See confirms changes to Italian liturgical translation of Our Father, Gloria

Links to discussions of the proposed translation of the Our Father can be found here. I am going to focus on the Gloria:

In the Gloria, the line “in térra pax homínibus bónae voluntátis” (on earth peace to people of good will) will be translated “pace in terra agli uomini, amati dal Signore” (peace on earth to men, loved by the Lord). It was translated “pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà” (peace on earth to men of good will).

The Lord loves everybody for they can have no good whatsoever unless they first be loved by God. But God loves them even if they sin against him, and sinners do not have peace. Peace can be found only in Christ, for someone who lives in Christ and by extension those who may not be living in Christ yet but are cooperating with God's grace. (Or perhaps they may not have been sacramentally incorporated into Christ but have been done so in some other way.) Hence, "men of good will." A better translation of the original Greek would be "men, with whom God is pleased" -- and with whom is God pleased? Those who are righteous by His grace.

So, is Luke 2:14 to be taken as being in the indicative mood, or is it expressing a command (imperative mood) or a wish/desire? Most interpreters seem to take it as being in the indicative mood. If it is in one of the other moods then the new translation may be more defensible though it would still require a lot of proper catechesis to explain the meaning.

Ed Feser on Heresy

Ed Feser: Popes, heresy, and papal heresy

He links to an interview with John Rist regarding the "Letter."

Related:
Scholar defends letter accusing Pope of heresy: Church is facing ‘most serious crisis’ in history

Latin Damage Control

Full episode.

Related:
Bishop Schneider discusses how the Church should handle a heretical pope
The limits of papal authority and the fate of a heretical pope: an exclusive interview with Bishop Schneider
Professor De Mattei Comments on Bishop Schneider's "Heretical Pope" Text

Premature?

LifeSiteNews: Prominent clergy, scholars accuse Pope Francis of heresy in open letter

Related:
Crisis: “One of the Worst Crises in the History of the Catholic Church” by Julia Meloni
De Mattei: “The most terrible schism the world has ever seen”

Which tradition?

I AM A TRADITIONALIST; THEREFORE, I AM by Aristotle Papanikolaou

Papanikolaou makes use of MacIntyre regarding traditions; but shouldn't he distinguish between different ecclesial traditions? There is Sacred Tradition (or the Orthodox equivalent) and then there are theological traditions. There may also be theological opinions about moral teaching but that doesn't mean that those opinions do not reflect the Natural Law. Does Papanikolaou accept that there is a Natural Law? What is his take on the moral law as revealed in the Old Testament?

For those who seek to innovate, they must meet the burden of proof.

And there is also the question of what in the Byzantine tradition reflects Sacred tradition and what does not (female deacons, as opposed to
deaconesses).