Month: September 2017

Once again, the actu­al text of Amor­is Laeti­tia does not say what The Cor­rec­tors claim it does. Nowhere does the pope say that those who have “full knowl­edge” and “vol­un­tar­i­ly choose” to com­mit adul­tery with­in an irreg­u­lar mar­riage are not in mor­tal sin. At best, this notion is read into the text. At worst, it is sim­ply made up. The Cor­rec­tors do not say where, they find this heresy. They quote a num­ber of pas­sages, but they don’t say which sup­ports their claims. I go in search of such a text and fail to find it, because The Cor­rec­tors do very unim­pres­sive work.

The “fil­ial cor­rec­tion” of Pope Francis—the work, of “a few dozen Catholics”; a “mar­gin­al fringe” of “main­ly obscure fig­ures” claims to find sev­en here­sies in Amor­is Laeti­tia. This time they charge the pope with the belief that peo­ple who sin grave­ly with full knowl­edge and con­sent of the will are not mor­tal­ly cul­pa­ble. But they leave out a great deal of §301 when they quote from it, but the miss­ing part is very impor­tant, since it talks about “mit­i­gat­ing fac­tors and sit­u­a­tions.” Oops. The Cor­rec­tors just don’t read very well, do they? Or per­haps they’re inten­tion­al­ly dis­hon­est. I can’t say.

Edward Pentin breath­less­ly says that this is the first “fil­ial cor­rec­tion” since 1333! I mean, wow. Let us cry over Jerusalem. But what canon­i­cal stand­ing do any of them have to be cor­rect­ing Peter? Can any­one cor­rect Peter, oth­er than Christ? The high­est-rank­ing soul among them is Bp. Fel­lay. But the SSPX is out­side the Catholic Church. The rest are a bunch of “lay schol­ars” and a few cler­gy. Main­ly, it reads like a who’s who of Who? Any­way, the Cor­rec­tors claim to find sev­en here­sies in Amor­is Laeti­tia. The unbi­ased may find an infi­nite num­ber of them, who knows?