He said the four cardinals had intervened “because so many people are saying: ‘We’re confused, and we don’t understand why the cardinals or someone in authority doesn’t speak up and help us.’”
Pope John XXII’s error, by virtue of the fact that it was most unlikely to result in the damnation of any of his followers, is tiny compared with the possible ramifications of the confusion in the Church brought about by the wording of Amoris Laetitia:In his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the Pope made no direct reference to the question, but some bishops have interpreted his words as meaning that some remarried people can receive Communion, even if they are still in a sexual relationship. This is the interpretation of the Buenos Aires bishops, which the Pope has appeared to privately favour.
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: Cardinal Raymond Burke has said it may be
: necessary to make a “formal act of
: correction” if Pope Francis doesn’t answer a
: letter from four cardinals asking him to
: clarify aspects of Amoris Laetitia.
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: In an interview with Edward Pentin of
: National Catholic Register, Cardinal Burke
: said that if the Pope were to teach error or
: heresy, “It is the duty in such cases, and
: historically it has happened, of cardinals
: and bishops to make clear that the Pope is
: teaching error and to ask him to correct
: it.”
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: Cardinal Burke is one of four cardinals who
: have written to the Pope asking for a
: clarification of Amoris Laetitia. They say
: that the document could be read as
: contradicting Church teaching on the moral
: law and on the question of Communion for the
: remarried. The Pope has declined to reply to
: the letter.
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: Asked what would happen if the Pope remained
: silent, Cardinal Burke replied: “Then we
: would have to address that situation. There
: is, in the tradition of the Church, the
: practice of correction of the Roman Pontiff.
: It is something that is clearly quite rare.
: But if there is no response to these
: questions, then I would say that it would be
: a question of taking a formal act of
: correction of a serious error.”
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: Such an act of formal correction would be
: extremely unusual. One example is the
: challenge to Pope John XXII in the 1330s. He
: had publicly taught – though only as his
: personal opinion – that souls in heaven
: would not actually see God until the Final
: Judgment, a teaching contrary to Church
: doctrine.
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: Full article:
: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/cardinal-burke-we-will-make-formal-act-of-correction-if-the-pope-doesnt-make-amoris-clarification/
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