Christopher Ferrara Contradicts Cardinal Müller
On June 1, the American commentator and lawyer Christopher Ferrara commented on Cardinal Müller's recent claims on EWTN, that ”it is absolutely impossible that the pope, as the successor of St. Peter, the Vicar of Jesus Christ for the Universal Church, [would] present a doctrine which is plainly against the words of Jesus Christ.”
Ferrara counters that it is not at all impossible for a Pope to teach error as a Pope is not absolutely inerrant and can fall into personal heresy. He gives historical examples such as John XXII who insisted that the blessed departed do not see God until the end of time.
Ferrara concludes, "Suffice it to say that the Bergoglian pontificate is a dramatic and historically unique demonstration of the strict limits of papal infallibility, here almost daily exceeded."
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Ferrara counters that it is not at all impossible for a Pope to teach error as a Pope is not absolutely inerrant and can fall into personal heresy. He gives historical examples such as John XXII who insisted that the blessed departed do not see God until the end of time.
Ferrara concludes, "Suffice it to say that the Bergoglian pontificate is a dramatic and historically unique demonstration of the strict limits of papal infallibility, here almost daily exceeded."
Picture: © Jeffrey Bruno, Aleteia, CC BY-SA, #newsNgreraayaq