Showing posts with label Aidan Nichols OP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aidan Nichols OP. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2020

A New One from Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Ecclesiology Has Consequences

Never mind that the Roman Code does not apply to any church outside of the patriarchate of Rome.

Latin ecclesiology shapes/informs Latin canon law. (As Latin canon law is particular to the patriarchate of Rome alone, it cannot be used as a source of Tradition, as it is not derived from or accepted by the Church Universal.)

"The first see is judged by no one." (Canon 1556 of the 1917 Code, canon 104 of the new code.)

Ed Peters: A canonical primer on popes and heresy

In sum, it needs to be said clearly that a [publicly] heretical Roman Pontiff loses his power upon the very fact. Meanwhile a declaratory criminal sentence, although it is merely declaratory, should not be disregarded, for it brings it about, not that a pope is “judged” to be a heretic, but rather, that he is shown to have been found heretical, that is, a general council declares the fact of the crime by which a pope has separated himself from the Church and has lost his rank.

How does this solve the problem? A general council can make a statement that the pope has committed heresy but it cannot judge (that is, it does not have the legal authority to judge him guilty of a crime and give a punishment)? How is the former at all binding?

Related:
The heresy letter is intelligent, but doesn’t quite convince

Friday, November 01, 2019

Whose Latin Christianity? Which Hermeneutic?

Another essay on... Vatican II.

Reading the Signs of the Times by Douglas Farrow

The Church,” says Gaudium et spes, “has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel.” A few paragraphs later, that duty is parsed in a positive way. The Church, we are told, “labors to decipher authentic signs of God's presence and purpose in the happenings, needs and desires in which this People has a part along with other men of our age” (emphasis added). 

What happened to the Church being the sign of God's presence and purpose to the world?

Monday, May 06, 2019

Will There Be Any Repercussions for This?

NCReg: Father Aidan Nichols Signs Open Letter Charging Pope Francis With Heresy by Edward Pentin
The Dominican priest is one of 19 academics and clergy calling on the world’s bishops to admonish the Pope and publicly reject heresy or face losing the papacy.

After all, Fr. Nichols' lecture on the papacy from last year has not been published in full.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Too Bad the Full Text of Fr. Aidan Nichol's Lecture for the English Fellowship of Ss Alban and Sergius Isn't Available

Fr Aidan Nichols, and the Amoris laetitia Crisis UPDATED "Fr Aidan reminded his hearers that Vatican I in fact limited the papacy; and surmised 'it may be that the present crisis of the Roman magisterium is providentially intended to call attention to the limits of the papacy [in regard to teaching]'"

Fr Aidan Nichols and the people "who ought to know better" UPDATED "It is not the position of the Roman Catholic Church that a pope is incapable of leading people astray by false teaching as a public doctor. He may be the supreme appeal judge of Christendom ... but that does not make him immune to perpetrating doctrinal howlers. Surprisingly ... this fact appears to be unknown to many who ought to know better."

Aidan Nichols, Amoris laetitia, and Tucho

The Catholic Herald article from August 2017.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A Request to Pope Francis

The Catholic Herald: The theologians’ letter has clarified what is really at stake in the Amoris debate by Dan Hitchens
The letter shows the real division is not pro- and anti-Francis, or rigorism versus mercy, but over Church teaching

See also: Theologians: Amoris Laetitia needs clarification against ‘heretical’ interpretations

Friday, January 02, 2015

Saint Sava