In a very interesting interview by Edward Pentin of Cardinal Burke the following was said:
What happens if the Holy Father does not respond to your act of justice and charity and fails to give the clarification of the Church’s teaching that you hope to achieve?
Then we would have to address that situation. There is, in the Tradition of the Church, the practice of correction of the Roman Pontiff. It is something that is clearly quite rare. But if there is no response to these questions, then I would say that it would be a question of taking a formal act of correction of a serious error.
In a conflict between ecclesial authority and the Sacred Tradition of the Church, which one is binding on the believer and who has the authority to determine this?
What’s binding is the Tradition. Ecclesial authority exists only in service of the Tradition. I think of that passage of St. Paul in the [Letter to the] Galatians (1:8), that if “even an angel should preach unto you any Gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.”
If the Pope were to teach grave error or heresy, which lawful authority can declare this and what would be the consequences?
It is the duty in such cases, and historically it has happened, of cardinals and bishops to make clear that the Pope is teaching error and to ask him to correct it.
Go here to read the rest. Stayed tuned. Interesting times, yes that is what we will call it, ahead for Mother Church.
is it conceivable that a truly loving shepherd can possibly refuse to give perfectly clear commands to his sheep when so many wolves are circling and picking off the flock?
Sad sad – and exhausting. The pope and his friends and appointments, and US bishops electing DiNardo, Gomez etal.
Personal experience with DiNardo makes me wary. I can’t even imagine how these few brave cardinals feel.
So is this the Pope’s equivalent of Hilary not giving a concession speech at the Jacob Javits Center:
http://www.ewtn.co.uk/news/holy-see/in-wake-of-rejection-of-dubia-pope-francis-cancels-meeting-with-cardinals
I see a parallel between dramatis personae of our Presidential election and current drama at the Vatican. Pope Francis is Obama, Hillary is Cupich or his type, and Burke is Trump. Hopefully, it will turn out like our election which was minor considering that the soul of the Catholic Church is at stake if Pope Francis continues as Pope.
Michael D-So Hillary is selectively transgendered? She would probably be lying. Another option to deal with papalatum infernum, the “virus of polarization”: isolate patient zero Bergodlio and quarantine all the heretics in the Vatican. Perhaps the CDC has a vaccine for the more recent, virulent barackodivisio chimera virus that has run rampant here since 2009, resulting in the most divided USA in history. BdcV might work for cardinals and bishops who have been infected with PiV. It is so comforting to know we have Truth on our side, and it is not a lower case “t.” All-have a fullofwonder weekend. Guy McClung, San Antonio, Texas