I had not imagined that the Pope would lead such a schism. If so, a majority of the Church outside the third world might follow.Are you talking about the Pope (Bishop of Rome) or some sort of schism?
A very good and simple observation. The progressives are using the same tactics that were used in the Protestant denominations. Just keep saying same things over and over, demand “dialog” without ever conceding a point, make a noise which is disproportionate to their numbers, until they wear down the opposition. Tactics which have been resoundingly successful in the Anglican and other denominations. Since the snowball started rolling with women’s ordination (or even earlier - contraception? Divorce?) there’s been no stopping it.He said it was “astonishing” that certain themes were being kept alive within the German Church. They are “always the same: female priesthood, celibacy, intercommunion, remarriage after divorce. Just recently there has been added the Church’s ‘yes’ to homosexuality.”
Only if the teaching is proposed as divinely revealed.Anyone who rejects an infallible teaching of the Church commits not only a sin of grave matter but also commits heresy.
As far as I know that teaching, though definitive, has not been proposed as being divinely revealed and so is not the stuff of heresy. I believe that the good Cardinal is mistaken.Therefore any Catholics calling for female priests commits heresy and that carries the penalty of Latae Sententiae Excommunication (automatic).
This isn’t strictly true. It was not proposed as formally revealed, but rather as a doctrine “to be definitively held” (“sententia definitive tenenda”). This would be a truth intrinsically connected to revealed truth. As a practical matter, there is not much difference–both classes of truths are taught infallibly and cannot be rejected without consequence to communion with the Church.Yes, it was proposed as divinely revealed - JP2 made that clear, it was divinely revealed by Christ by choosing 12 male apostles.
And so, because it was divinely revelead, by Our Lord it will never, ever be changed. And if any females were ever ordained the ordinations and all acts committed by them would be invalid.
Please provide a citation - I recall no such statement from JP2. I just read Ordinatio Sacerdotalis again, and I’m not seeing it anywhere.Yes, it was proposed as divinely revealed - JP2 made that clear…
It will never be changed because it has been definitively taught, but that doesn’t mean it has been taught as being divinely revealed. Those are not the same things, and my understanding is that only teachings which are taught as being divinely revealed are the stuff of heresy.And so, because it was divinely revelead, by Our Lord it will never, ever be changed
This needs to be nuanced. Simply rejecting a Catholic doctrine is not a sin. Knowing it to be true but rejecting it anyway, then that is a different story…Anyone who rejects an infallible teaching of the Church commits not only a sin of grave matter but also commits heresy.
Wha… uuhhh…These gals " I Don’t Think So " type of feminist stance -