I’ve already admitted to being a Jimmy Akin fanboy, but his new podcasts is just so full of awesome sauce.
Over the years I have done a fair amount of coverage on the women’s ordination movement and one question I had was did support of women’s ordination technically constitute heresy. From the little research I did I could not definitively say yeah or nay, but leaned towards nay.
Jimmy goes through the technical issues which are many. The following are his show notes for the documents he referenced. This is a very good look at the subject of what heresy is and what would formally constitute heresy.
Canons relating to the Church’s Magisterium, including the definition of heresy:http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2H.HTM
Who must make the profession of faith: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2R.HTM
Text of the profession of faith: http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfoath.htm
Doctrinal commentary on the profession of faith: http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfadtu.htm
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I think this detail in the profession of religious submission of mind and will in the non infallible is incomplete as it was in LG 25. The Church actually complements LG25 off stage so to speak in moral theology tomes….and I refer readers to Germain Grisez’s “Christian
Moral Principles” ,1997, for seminaries, pages 853 onwards. Historically it accounts for the prolongation due to lack of discussion of things like burning heretics at the stake….begun papally in 1253 by Innocent IV as mandatory for secular rulers (previously secular rulers did it on their own by the laws of the empire….see Josef Blotzer/ Inquisition/ Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent). So when you reached 1520, Pope LeoX in Exsurge Domine condemned as “against the Catholic .faith” Luther’s position against burning heretics at least then in 1520. Now section 80 of Splendor of the Truth implicitly condemns such burning as a torturous death. So from 1253 til 1816, you had papally affirmed punishment that is now seen papally as an intrinsic evil. Discussion may have shortened that 600 years of a mistake. I call it a mistake based on Christ twice praising not the thought but the actions of two heretical Samaritans….the fictional Good Samaritan and the real Samaritan leper who alone gave thanks for curing by Christ out if ten men. Samaritans rejected all scripture except the Pentateuch so they rejected many prophecies of Christ’s coming and Christ said to the Samaritan woman at the well….” you worship what you do not understand, we worship what we understand
for salvation is from the Jews.”. The Popes should have known from the Good Samaritan story that heretics can act well despite their beliefs and thus should have been punished at that time when their actions
matched the implications if their false ideas not prior to such.
Cardinal Burke answered in the affirmative in his decrees of excommunication and interdict in the St. Louis galpriest sorta-nation debacle. Read his decrees; you can get them on my site–uh, oh! Sorry, I searched my site for the links to post here and the Archdiocese has scrubbed them from its website. Hmm.. But check out the posts here:
http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2008/03/archbishop-burke-declares.html
and here:
http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2008/06/sister-lears-found-guilty.html
When in doubt about anything, always consult the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” (dark green cover).
CCC ” 1577 Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination.
The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry.
The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ’s return.
The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself.
For this reason the ordination of women is not possible. “