You can imagine, then, our fascination with a group of Catholic theologians issuing the sort of rebuke to a pope that hasn't happened in nearly seven centuries. The National Catholic Register has the story, hat tip to Instapundit for the link.
A group of clergy and lay scholars from around the world have taken the very rare step of presenting Pope Francis with a formal filial correction, accusing him of propagating heresies concerning marriage, the moral life, and reception of the sacraments.If papal doctrinal pronouncements are supposedly "infallible," the Francis papacy proves the process by which popes are chosen is as fallible as most human endeavors.
Entitled Correctio filialis de haeresibus propagatis, meaning ‘A Filial Correction Concerning the Propagation of Heresies,’ the 25 page letter was delivered to the Holy Father at his Santa Marta residence on Aug. 11.
The Pope has so far not responded to the initiative, whose 62 signatories include the German intellectual Martin Mosebach, former president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, and the superior general of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay (he learned of the document only after it had been delivered to the Pope and signed it on behalf of the Society).
The filial correction (is) the first to be made of a reigning Pontiff since Pope John XXII was admonished in 1333.
