What if your Bishop is a Heretic?

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dancus:
It’s fairly obvious the heresy police are out in force today.
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If only…
 
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Jaypeeto2:
Just by reading about and looking at the photos of his
religious ed gatherings that he puts together in L.A. with all it’s blatantly heretical and sometimes blasphemous speakers, I don’t “seriously doubt” that he is a heretic at all. No orthodox person would do such things.
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But what does a simple lay person do about it?
 
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Ignatius:
But what does a simple lay person do about it?
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Well, we could write the CDF (as the press likes to remind us repeatedly, “formerly the Inqusition.”). I thought about it several times after listening to Richard McBrien.
 
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JKirkLVNV:
Well, we could write the CDF (as the press likes to remind us repeatedly, “formerly the Inqusition.”). I thought about it several times after listening to Richard McBrien.
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Well, you could try that. I think the CDF applied some kind of sanction to a Sri Lankan heretic a few years ago, and then let him off when he said something which didn’t really clarify matters. 🙂 Other than that, there has been virtually no action of a disciplinary nature from the CDF for decades. So much for the liberal media’s Big Scary Ratzinger Bogey.

Not that this is necessarily surprising, as by the Motu proprio ‘Integrae servandae’ of Paul VI (Dec. 7, 1965) which established the purpose and nature of the CDF, its purpose is not doctrinal “control” but rather to “encourage doctrinal initiative.” Well, there has been plenty of that in the years since, hasn’t there? 😃

The first big thing the CDF did, after it was established in December 1965, was to publish a Notification (June 14 1966) which abolished the sanctions attached to the Index of Forbidden Books. Which means, in laymen’s terms, that if you read a book which is on the Index you are naughty in an undefined way but will suffer no punishment. Further, this same Notification devolved the authority for controlling bad books back to the local bishops, and stated that the Holy See would only intervene publicly and directly in “extreme cases.”

So, what can you do? Maybe try the Eusebius of Dorylæum approach. He, as a layman, publicly rejected Nestorius (Patriarch of Constantinople) and his heresies, and was excommunicated for it by Nestorius.

In a letter to the clergy of Constantinople, Pope St. Celestine I taught: “The authority of Our Apostolic See has determined that the bishop, cleric, or simple Christian who had been deposed or excommunicated by Nestorius or his followers, after the latter began to preach heresy shall not be considered deposed or excommunicated. For he who had defected from the faith with such preachings, cannot depose or remove anyone whatsoever.”

So, if you get sanctioned by Mahoney, you’re safe.

You can read about Eusebius here:
newadvent.org/cathen/05622a.htm

Regards,
Aquinian.
 
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