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#11230 What Is Heresy? - Michael Lofton

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 15:21 – What is schism? 25:10 – How would we classify someone who says that homosexual acts can be loving and the church’s teaching is wrong? 36:39 – When is it appropriate for a layperson to call someone a heretic? 45:14 – Is it possible for a pope to be an apostate, heretic, schismatic, or dissenter? If so, what would be required for that to happen, and who could determine it? 49:49 – What should we think about some of the recent appointments the Pope has made to the synod and his crackdown on Bishop Strickland? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Cavigancer's Live. I'm Cikell at your host, still recovering from the

0:21.0

terror of having to do Latin all of a sudden. Can you, Darren, could you maybe on whatever

0:26.0

emails we send priests when we invite them on? Tell them, don't, don't just go straight

0:29.9

into Latin on me without some warning. That panicked me, Darren. So I have high blood pressure

0:36.0

now. I can't. I was hyperventilated. All right, well, it's good. We've got Michael Aloften

0:40.4

here. He could go right into Latin. He could go right into Greek. He doesn't care. He would,

0:44.2

whatever language. He's not like me. Michael Aloften, of course, the proprietor. He's the founder.

0:50.6

He's the proprietor. He's the host of reason and theology, which you can find on YouTube or at

0:55.0

Reason and Theology.com. What's it about? Well, uncovering the beauties of the faith, sharing

1:00.6

the beauties of the faith. And also, I think a great service it does is clearing up a lot of confusion

1:05.4

about the faith, because there's a lot of confusion. So do check it out at Reason and Theology.com.

1:09.8

Michael Aloften, thanks very much for being here with us. Hey, Si. Thanks for having me back.

1:14.5

How is your Latin? It's okay. Enough taking a few years of it, but, you know, not where I want to

1:21.8

be. It's all right. I bet that means you're so good at it. I mean, I can kind of make my way

1:29.0

through a theological text, but, you know, I want to get to the point where I can do some,

1:34.3

you know, good translation work. Uh-huh. And do you know any Latin swear words? You don't,

1:38.7

you can't say them on the air. I just wonder. Do you know? No, unfortunately, they don't really

1:42.9

come up and, you know, the Latin vulgar. They do when I'm studying. Yeah, is that right? They don't

1:47.5

come up because you don't ask. You know what? That's you have not because you asked not. That's

1:51.7

is a problem. Yeah. Three, one, eight, seven, eight, four, triple eight, three, one, eight, seven,

1:58.8

eight, four. Here's what we're going to talk about with Michael. We're accusatory with one

2:03.4

another on the internet these days. We Catholics and we say this bishop is a heretic. That bishop is

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