Viganò denounces Amoris Laetitia summit as ‘rupture’ from Church teaching
'The officials of the conciliar and synodal church call 'paradigm' what in the language of the Church has always been called error,' said Viganò.
Archbishop Carlo Maria
Viganò exsurgedomine.org
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Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s X account. Automatically translated from Italian, with minor stylistic edits.
(LifeSiteNews) — “A theological paradigm that changes”: they admit it themselves. Whoever declares that the Church “is moving toward the full realization of Vatican II and the Synod on Synodality” is merely confessing what we denounce: a rupture, not a homogeneous development.
Theology has no paradigms to change, because it has the deposit of faith to safeguard and transmit. Vatican I defined it in terms that no one can abrogate: from the sense of the dogmas one must never stray “under the appearance and name of a higher understanding,” under the pretext of a better comprehension.
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“A Church in which everyone has a voice”? The Church is not a parliament, and Our Lord did not call for consultations: “He who hears you hears me.” The listening that saves is that of the Word of God (“faith comes from hearing” Rm. 10:17), not a listening to the world, which has obtained our surrender. One listens to Our Lord, and then one obeys.
And Amoris Laetitia, whose “reception” is celebrated with such fervor, has introduced into the discipline of the sacraments what Scripture (Mt. 19; 1 Cor. 11:27) and the Council of Trent excluded. Trent anathematized whoever says that the Church errs when it teaches that the matrimonial bond is not dissolved by adultery, and that other marriages may be contracted while the spouse is still living (Sess. XXIV, can. 7); and it established that whoever is conscious of mortal sin must not approach the Eucharist without prior sacramental confession (Sess. XIII, can. 11).
The officials of the conciliar and synodal church call “paradigm” what in the language of the Church has always been called error. And when the error concerns a defined doctrine, the Catholic Church has an even graver name: heresy.
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