5/10/2023 0 Comments Heretic game bishop![]() Robert Bellarmine, Bishop Schneider set his sights on popes who held a similar view:Īnd even if some few popes seemed to support such an opinion (as e.g. Not content with besmirching the credibility of St. Suggest, however, that this very same principle applies to a man who claims to be pope, and heads explode! There is nothing whatsoever doubtful in this statement. It is clear that, in Bellarmine’s mind, the reason a pope who is a manifest heretic can be judged is due to the man’s state namely, he has ceased to be pope! Note that he is not saying that the manifest heretic is subject to judgment because he is a non-member of the Church, rather, he is saying that the man is subject to judgment because he is no longer pope. In reality, as we will see, Bellarmine’s opinion is founded upon nothing less reliable than Sacred Scripture itself. This being so, it is misleading in the extreme to imply, as Bishop Schneider does, that Bellarmine’s opinion is “based” on a false claim as if to imply that the erroneous attribution mentioned somehow renders his theological opinion suspect. Boniface” (as Bishop Schneider writes of Gratian) the Catholicity of that theological opinion is another matter altogether. NB: It is one thing to find support for a theological opinion in a “decree erroneously attributed to St. Robert Bellarmine and other similar opinions on the loss of the papal office for heresy are based on the spurious decree of Gratian in the Corpus Iuris Canonici. Robert Bellarmine’s opinion is that “a pope who is a manifest heretic, ceases in himself to be Pope and head, just as he ceases in himself to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church: whereby, he can be judged and punished by the Church” ( De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Robert Bellarmine’s opinion concerning a heretical pope should be dismissed since the poor Doctor was duped: The purpose of his editorial, however, is ordered more properly toward what takes place, and how Catholics are to behave, when a pope falls into heresy. ![]() In this, Bishop Schneider appears to be casting doubt on whether or not a pope can ever fall into heresy. Boniface (+754) and accepted by Gratian, the Medieval theologians and theologians of the subsequent centuries maintained as possible the hypothesis – but not the certitude – of a heretical pope. According to the opinion expressed in this decree, the pope cannot be judged by any human authority, except if he has fallen into heresy ( a nemine est iudicandus, nisi deprehendatur a fide devius).īasing themselves on this spurious decree erroneously attributed to St. The hypothesis of the possibility of a heretical pope derives from the Decree of Gratian (dist. Here, I will highlight certain of his most noteworthy points. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, in favor of his own. Bishop Athanasius Schneider, one of Trad, Inc.’s most prolific content providers, recently penned an editorial (available at Lifesite News) wherein he urges faithful Catholics to dismiss the opinion of St.
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