Is Jimmy Akin really a heretic?

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I recently stumbled across this website The heresies and doctrinal errors taught by Jimmy Akin which has compiled a whole host of things that apparently are the heretical teachings of Jimmy Akin… I’ve always admired Jimmy and looked up to him, I even bought his books! Part of me doesn’t want to believe it is true, but reading through some of the blogs linked on the website, it does sound a bit bad. Has anyone else come across this, or does anyone else consider Jimmy Akin to be heretical? Is this some widespread thing I had no idea about till now?
 
Wow, haven’t seen a Ron Conte link in a while on CAF.
Why are you reading his blog?
 
It came up for some reason when I was googling Jimmy Akin to find more stuff about him, is he notorious then?
 
Please understand that site is NOT affiliated with the Church in any way. It is a private person’s site. This person has no standing in the institutional Church and his writings have no approvals of any bishop.

A person who is accused of heresy in the Church has a trial and a pronouncement of a sentence. Jimmy Akins has had neither. Nor has any bishop told him not to publish or that he is in error.
 
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I don’t have time now to check your link but I can guess straight away that it’s a an ultra Traditional Catholic site.

Normal Catholics don’t investigate other Catholics for “heresy” and don’t care.

It may be interesting reading their arguments just out of curiosity, but probably better to avoid it unless you’ve got someone to answer them (as you’ve done here).
 
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I recently stumbled across this website http://www.catechism.cc/articles/Jimmy-Akin-errors-summary.htm which has compiled a whole host of things that apparently are the heretical teachings of Jimmy Akin… I’ve always admired Jimmy and looked up to him, I even bought his books! Part of me doesn’t want to believe it is true, but reading through some of the blogs linked on the website, it does sound a bit bad. Has anyone else come across this, or does anyone else consider Jimmy Akin to be heretical? Is this some widespread thing I had no idea about till now?
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None of that is true. Ron Conte is well known here for views that contradict Church teaching. Stick with Jimmy Akin if you want the truth.
 
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he notorious then?
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He [the blog author] has a reputation around CAF for his out-of-the-mainstream interpretations of church teaching.

He has no imprimatur or nihil obstat. He just has a blog.
 
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Well I’m really glad that this is the reaction to be honest haha, what is this guy famous for saying then?
 
I see, I had wondered if some of the stuff was him reaching to find heresy in small ways Jimmy has expressed things, but I’m not quite educated enough to know on my own without help
 
You might want to read this old thread.
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Ron Conte, Catholic Theologian Spirituality
I’ve been reading some of his site. Does anyone know anything about him? He claimed that the Warning predicted at Garabandal would happen Good Friday 2010, and now is saying he miscalculated and it will now happen this coming Good Friday. What does the Church think about him? Just wondering.
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Thank you so much! I typed in jimmy akin heresy into the search before I posted but I didn’t find anything, I guess I should have typed this guy’s name instead
 
We’ve had a lot of threads about and including Mr. Conte here at CAF. One particular thread of note is:
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The Catechism of Catholic Ethics / Catechism.cc = causing scandal? Moral Theology
Hello all, I hope you didn’t quickly misread the title as “Catechism of the Catholic Church” as causing scandal; however, if you did, that kind of proves the point here: On these forums today I found multiple references (over different times and posts) that the catechism.cc website, named “The Catechism of Catholic Ethics” is actually an un-authoritative, potentially hazardous resource run by a layperson, Ronald L. Conte, who has (at best) extremely questionable beliefs and teachings on a vari…
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He used to post here, but it looks like his account is gone. I found a 2012 thread that linked to his CAF profile at that time, but the link is dead now.

He’s probably best known around here for his ultra-convservative views regarding issues of sex.
 
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It could just be an old link, I didn’t see the date. Because you know, once it’s out there, it’s out there forever.
 
What do you mean ultra-conservative? I believe the Church teachings on sex inside marriage ofc, but I can’t imagine how you’d be more conservative beyond saying nobody should ever have sex at all
 
Did you check out the link Wampa gave? Very interesting reading. If I recall correctly, Ron Conte was “against” things that the Church was okay with. It was his own Catechism he quoted, not the Catholic Church.
 
I’m reading through the first few posts now. I certainly did not think he was an authoritative source directly from the Church, I only just found his websites and was struggling to tell if there is really any merit to the things he said, I was suspicious but needed confirmation from others, because I didn’t want to dismiss him if it turned out to really just be wishful thinking on my part.
 
Speaking of catechisms, was there a written catechism before the 1992 one? I can find the Baltimore Catechism, but not a regular catechism. There must have been one, right?
EDIT – I’m seeing the catechism of Trent. Was that the one in force until 1992?
 
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Ron Conte did his own Bible translation and put it on the public domain It does NOT have Church approval.
 
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