Yes it is serious. I thought the secular media would have made a bigger fuss. They either don't appreciate the significance yet or are still too obsessed with Trump - I'm betting on the latter!
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: It is getting serious – a situation that we
: have never experienced before, and indeed,
: that no generation has experienced in
: centuries. However, it is painfully obvious
: that something needs to be done; many of us
: have experienced personally what the
: Catholic Herald reports in its concluding
: paragraph: 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.
:
: 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.”
:
: 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:
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: 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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