Dr. Josef Seifert: Papal Heresy Must be Investigated!
The Church must proceed with an examination of accusations of Papal heresy
The Church must proceed with an examination of accusations of Papal heresy
It is the crime of heresy, not the sin alone, which severs a man from the Church.
No lay person is responsible for figuring them out in order to save his soul.
But Christ has not abandoned the Catholic Church.
The basic flaw in all attempts by sedevacantists to find precedents for their position in the Western Schism is that nobody back then was a sedevacantist.
Here we are and we are faced with the question, “What do we do about it?”
In 1378, there was a concrete case of “an ordinary lay Catholic in the pews” who had to decide whether Clement VII was Pope.
This premise, then, is only probable, not necessary.
It is probably easier for a simple priest who lacks such formation to discern its truth.
Lamont has recently added his quite weighty voice to affirm that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not pope.