Flee from Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors

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My KOReader notes:

Mystery of Heresy

08/07/24Mystery of Heresy : 16

God has even permitted some popes to affirm doctrinal errors and ambiguities in the past, while not being formal heresies as such. Such cases have been very rare, including Pope Honorius I (625–638), Pope John XXII (1316–1334), and Pope Francis (2013–).

Bergoglio has pronounced already condemned heresies, not material heresy like John XXII or refusal to explicitly condemn heresy as with Honorius I.

19th Century

08/08/2419th Century : 67

revealed truths are only supernatural in a relative sense, and should gradually turn into truths of reason

20th Century

08/08/2420th Century : 68

Pope Leo XIII (+1903) in the Apostolic Letter Testem Benevolentiae (1899) and Pope Pius XII (+1958) in the Apostolic Exhortation Menti Nostrae (1950).

08/08/2420th Century : 71

FEMINISM
Sociopolitical advocacy for the supposed equality of the sexes, tending to the destruction of natural distinction and proper roles in marriage, family, and society. Rejected in the Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and the World (2004).

08/09/2420th Century : 74

layman Maurice Blondel

He was a layman? I thought he was a Jesuit

Errors about the Incarnation

08/09/24Errors about the Incarnation : 96

Every departure from Catholic doctrine is essentially an error about the Incarnation.

Errors about the Church

08/09/24Errors about the Church : 104

one of the most famous and frequent Muslim prayers, the Al-Ikhlas Ayat, solemnly rejects this divine revelation, in saying: “He is Allah, the one and only; Allah, the eternal, absolute; he begets not, nor is he begotten; and there is none like unto him.”71

08/09/24Errors about the Church : 110

Are so-called “sedevacantists” in schism?
Yes, inasmuch as one who obstinately refuses to recognize a lawfully reigning pope is by that fact a schismatic.

Authority in the Church

08/09/24Authority in the Church : 114

Is the Magisterium also a source of divine revelation?
No. The Magisterium is only the servant, guardian, and expositor of God’s revelation:

davvero?

08/10/24Authority in the Church : 116

Gallicanism or Statism, subjecting the authority of pope and bishops to the civil power;

Errors about Morality

08/11/24Errors about Morality : 171

Is the public normalization of sexual sin a clear mark of a decaying civilization?
Yes. As demonstrated many times throughout history, the society that normalizes any sexual sin — especially sodomy — is on the way to collective destruction.

08/12/24Errors about Morality : 176

May the clergy ever prohibit rites of public worship due to concerns about public health?
No. The prohibition of divine worship or the sacraments in the name of public health is a violation of the rights of God and the faithful, as well as a subordination of the Church’s supreme law — the salvation of souls162 — to the care of bodies.

08/12/24Errors about Morality : 185

Technocracy, which would subjugate private rights and liberties through socioeconomic systems entirely dependent on technological gateways controlled by a small number.

Errors about the Liturgy

08/12/24Errors about the Liturgy : 189

novel Breviary of Pope Paul III (1536)179 that caused decades of controversy before being retracted by Pope Pius V in 1568.

Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 209

Satan fears her not only more than all Angels and men, but in some sense more than God Himself . . . because Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being beaten and punished by a little and humble handmaid of God, and her humility humbles him more than the Divine power.

sim. to Bramonte

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 214

Freemasons in Rome began to demonstrate openly and belligerently against the Church. They placed the black standard of the “Giordano Bruno” under the window of the Vatican. On this standard the archangel St. Michael was depicted lying under the feet of the triumphant Lucifer. At the same time, countless pamphlets were distributed to the people in which the Holy Father was attacked shamefully. Right then I conceived the idea of organizing an active society to counteract Freemasonry and other slaves of Lucifer.193

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 215

Freemasons follow this principle above all: “Catholicism can be overcome not by logical arguments but by corrupted morals

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 218

the Church even forbids artistic works that could give the impression of Our Lady being a priest.

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 222

in your souls, let fertility abound and virginity be preserved.

08/13/24Devotion to Mary, Destroyer of Heresies : 222

sins against the purity of the Catholic faith signify a slandering of the virginal purity of the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary

Syllabus of Errors

08/13/24Syllabus of Errors : 230

As the philosopher is one thing, and philosophy another, so it is the right and duty of the philosopher to subject himself to the authority which he shall have proved to be true; but philosophy neither can nor ought to submit to any such authority.213
11. The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself.214

Sounds like Gaudium et Spes §59, that science should be free in its own realm:

the Church does not forbid that "the human arts and disciplines use their own principles and their proper method, each in its own domain"; therefore "acknowledging this just liberty," this Sacred Synod affirms the legitimate autonomy of human culture and especially of the sciences.

which seemingly inappropriately cites Quadragesimo anno §42: "Even though economics and moral science employs each its own principles in its own sphere, it is, nevertheless, an error to say that the economic and moral orders are so distinct from and alien to each other that the former depends in no way on the latter."

08/13/24Syllabus of Errors : 235

There is nothing to prevent the decree of a general council, or the act of all peoples, from transferring the supreme pontificate from the bishop and city of Rome to another bishop and another city.

Conciliarism?

08/13/24Syllabus of Errors : 238

Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, and only, or at least primarily, the ends of earthly social life.251

08/13/24Syllabus of Errors : 240

Authority is nothing else but numbers and the sum total of material forces.263

Cf. Madison's idea that "justice" is a balancing of Newtonian force vectors.

cf. also: Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on God as "the Origin of Civil Power," Diuturnum.

08/13/24Syllabus of Errors : 243

Boniface VIII was the first who declared that the vow of chastity taken at ordination renders marriage void.275

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Declaration of Truths

08/14/24Declaration of Truths : 268

“God does not delight in numbers” (Or. 42:7).