Brilliant, Mark Hausam

When are Catholics permitted to dissent from teachings of the Pope?
by Mark Hausam · March 1, 2019
https://wherepeteris.com/when-are-catholics-permitted-to-dissent-from-teachings-of-the-pope/

In other words, if John Paul II, Benedict were Popes, the latter is Pope emeritus and Francis is Pope, a Catholic is not (since about 1992-94) allowed to be Young Earth Creationist.

If on the other hand Young Earth Creationism is strictly implied in Church dogma (as in "qui loquutus est per prophetas" and as in "eundem sensum, eandemque doctrinam quam ecclesia tenet atque tenuit") then Wojtyla, Ratzinger, Bergoglio are material heretics at least, and, since trying to bind by insisting on a point, even formal heretics. As such none of them was or is Pope.

If Bergoglio says "God is eternal" I am saying "not because he says so".

This is what FSSPX gets wrong, and the principle (perhaps not my own example) is why Pope Michael, before his election, decided they were inadequate, instead one had to conclude for sedevacancy, and that being the case one needed to look out how a new Pope could be elected!

If Pope Michael says episcopal consecreations of Novus Ordo are always invalid, I am asking how much he requires the faithful to believe that, not if the statement is fallible or infallible.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Cergy
Sts Jovinus and Basileus
2.III.2019