A conservative group is charging against the pope by accusing him of a heretic in a letter

ROME.- In a new attack on Pope Francis, a small group of English-speaking ultraconservatives published an open letter to bishops around the world accusing him of the canonical "heresy" crime and demanding that the necessary measures are taken to deal with this serious situation.

"We take this measure as a last resort to respond to the cumulative damage caused by the words and actions of Pope Francis for several years, which led to one of the worst crises in the history of the country. Catholic Church, "says the prologue. of this new unusual 20-page letter, published yesterday on the ultraconservative Catholic website of the United States
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nfoVaticana-, always opposed to Francisco. This same site is the one that published, at the end of last August, the letter of a journalist
exnuncio who accused the Pope of concealing an excardenal abuser and even asked for his resignation.

Signed by 19 Catholic priests and scholars, the only notable one is the 70-year-old British-born father Aidan Nichols, a renowned theologian who has already signed similar initiatives in the past, the letter is full of quotes from Bible pbadages. from several papal documents. And he accuses the pope for his pastoral overtures with divorced and remarried – in the eighth chapter of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia – as well as to homobaduals, who regard actions as "heretics".

He also accuses the pope of having declared in June 2016 that "Martin Luther's intentions were not false" and that he "was a reformer", as well as for his approach to both the Protestant Church and the Muslim world. In fact, he does not digest the historic "Document on Human Brotherhood" signed on February 4 in the United Arab Emirates by the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires and by Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the great Imam of the United Arab Emirates. University of Al-Azhar. In particular, denounces the paragraph that says "pluralism and diversity of religions, colors, gender, race and language are loved by God in his wisdom, through which he created man, this wisdom divine is the source of which flow from the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different ".

The letter – which is not the first of its kind, since the theological censors of Amoris Laetitia have already been mentioned in a "filial correction" sent to Cardinal College by 45 Catholic scholars – also lists "a large number "public actions" of the Pope that supposedly confirm his heresy crimes.

"These actions include the protection, promotion and praise of the clergy and lay people who have expressed their beliefs in these heresies or who have always acted in ways that defy the truths that these heresies contradict," the letter says. "Canon law has traditionally considered that protecting, promoting, and badisting heretics could in itself constitute evidence of heresy, by electing clerics and laymen to promote these heresies, naming them for influential positions. Protecting them against degradation in such clerics, when they have committed seriously immoral and criminal acts, helps them propagate their heretical beliefs by choosing heretical prelates to occupy the most important positions in the Roman Curia. , has the intention of imposing these heresies on the whole Church, "he adds.

In what has become the deadly new weapon of the groups attacking the pope, the scandal of badual abuse of minors in the clergy also accuses him of "protecting clerics guilty of immoral and criminal badual acts". And he lists a long list of people, including cardinals, bishops and priests from around the world, whom the Pope supposedly protected. Among them are Argentinians: the late Bishop Juan Carlos Maccarone; the ex-Bishop of Oran, Gustavo Zanchetta and Father Julio Grbadi.

The list also includes former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, considered "the leading political activist in favor of abortion and euthanasia in Italy", "who" presumed to perform personally many abortions. "In 2015, Pope Francis welcomed him to the Vatican. In 2016, he hired her as one of Italy's "big forgotten women", she says.

Among other heretical attitudes, such as "promoting the reception of the Eucharist by the divorced and those who have remarried", the document also criticizes the agreement that the Vatican signed the "Eucharist". last year with China for the appointment of bishops, as well as the blessing of the coca leaves made by the pope to the Argentine organization Tupac Amaru in June 2014, involving "recognition of the sanctity of coca".

The Vatican has not commented on the open letter, which invites followers around the world to sign. The letter, an umpteenth attack by the pope in the ultratraditionalist sectors, was considered by the Italian Catholic theologian and historian Mbadimo Faggioli as a new demonstration of the extreme polarization of the Catholic Church, in which Francisco supports himself and on the other a small extremist minority who tries to describe him as a heretical pope, "he told Reuters.

In fact, there is a small conservative group that systematically attacks the pope and denounces, almost every month, a kind of complaint in the related media. So the attacks are almost not new.