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"Catholic Scholars Appeal to Pope Francis to Repudiate ‘Errors’ in Amoris Laetitia"
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"A group of Catholic scholars, prelates and clergy have sent an appeal to the College of Cardinals asking that they petition Pope Francis to 'repudiate' what they see as “erroneous propositions” contained in Amoris Laetitia.
In a statement released today, the 45 signatories of the appeal say Amoris Laetitia — the Pope’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation (summary document) on the recent Synod on the Family that was published in April — contains 'a number of statements that can be understood in a sense that is contrary to Catholic faith and morals.'
The 13 page document, translated into six languages and sent to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals as well as 218 individual cardinals and patriarchs, quotes 19 passages in the exhortation which 'seem to conflict with Catholic doctrines'.
The anonymous signatories — described as Catholic prelates, scholars, professors, authors, and clergy from various pontifical universities, seminaries, colleges, theological institutes, religious orders, and dioceses around the world — then go on to list 'applicable theological censures specifying the nature and degree of the errors' contained in Amoris laetitia.
A theological censure is a judgment on a proposition concerning Catholic faith or morals as contrary to the faith or at least doubtful.
The statement says those who signed the appeal have asked the College of Cardinals, in their capacity as the Pope's official advisers, 'to approach the Holy Father with a request that he repudiate the errors listed in the document in a definitive and final manner, and to authoritatively state that Amoris laetitia does not require any of them to be believed or considered as possibly true.'
'We are not accusing the Pope of heresy,' said Joseph Shaw, a signatory of the appeal who is also acting as spokesman for the authors, 'but we consider that numerous propositions in Amoris laetitia can be construed as heretical upon a natural reading of the text. Additional statements would fall under other established theological censures, such as scandalous, erroneous in faith, and ambiguous, among others.'
Such is the climate in much of today’s Church, one of the appeal's chief organizers told the Register that most of the signatories prefer to remain publicly anonymous because they “fear reprisals, or they are concerned about repercussions on their religious community, or if they have an academic career and a family, they fear they might lose their jobs.”
Among the problems they cite in the exhortation, the signatories believe Amoris laetitia 'undermines' the Church’s teaching on admission to the sacraments for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics."
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