Certain Positions Can Be Manifestly Heretical

Certain people in the Vatican II Sect have made the false claim that only persons – not statements, positions or propositions – can be manifestly heretical. They are wrong. This point was covered in this video. As just one example, in the following passage Bellarmine directly describes an error that is patently opposed to the Gospel as manifest heresy.

Here the word errorem and the term manifestam haeresim are in the same case (the accusative case) because, in context, Bellarmine connects the word error with the term manifest heresy. He presupposes that certain errors or statements are properly termed manifest heresy. Other examples could be given as well. Although Bellarmine says that this particular error of Gregory was not manifest heresy, he teaches that some errors are properly termed manifest heresy because they are expressly contrary to the Gospel or Catholic dogma. In the very next sentence he gives an example of what is expressly contrary to the Gospel and thus manifestly heretical.