"'Heretic' and 'heresy' are strong words, which contemporary ecclesiastical politeness has softened"

• Expanding the Law That Allows Euthanasia of Organ Donors (HALO, 2/21/23)    

• COVID-19 Vaccination Added to 2023 Immunization Schedules (Children of God for Life, 2/28/23)
  "Beyond the ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 vaccines (ALL of the authorized and approved vaccines are ethically compromised and tied to abortion), I urge parents to consider the risk/benefit associated with COVID-19 childhood vaccination. The absolute risk reduction in infection, severe symptomatic disease, hospitalization, transmissibility and death are not materially different from zero, and the risk of serious adverse events associated with the vaccines are now starting to emerge at a concerning rate. Perhaps most importantly for parents and children are the fact that long-term effects are not known. Fact, not speculation. No one knows."
  
  
• Here’s how half of U.S. abortions could be stopped this week (Catholic News Agency, 2/28/23)
  • Abortifacients and Catholic Hospitals (Catholic 365, 12/13/23)
  • Advertisers in Parish Bulletins (Catholic 365, 12/9/23)

• "something happened in the Catholic Church in the 20th century that didn’t just change a few priests, but even changed the entire environment of who would soon be considered worthy.  'Charming' and 'pastoral' replaced 'charitable' and 'orthodox' and 'strong'.... only a God-centered man can love his neighbor in the trenches for God’s sake, in reflection of the dying and rising God-Man Who said, Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (Fr David Nix, 2/28/23).

• Muslim-Muslim ticket proclaimed winner of Nigeria’s presidential election amid protests (Catholic News Agency, 3/1/23)

• “"Is it not contrary to the Catholic faith and therefore heresy to say that sexual sins are not a grave matter? Is it not contrary to the Catholic faith and therefore heresy to say that one may receive holy Communion despite having committed grave sin without repenting? If so, what are the canonical implications of such heresies?' he [Bishop Paprocki] told CNA" (Catholic News Agency, 3/1/23)
• "Unfortunately, it is not uncommon today to hear Catholic leaders affirm unorthodox views that, not too long ago, would have been espoused only by heretics. 'Heretic' and 'heresy' are strong words, which contemporary ecclesiastical politeness has softened to gentler expressions such as 'our separated brethren' or 'the Christian faithful who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.' But the reality is that those who are 'separated' and 'not in full communion' are separated and not in full communion because they reject essential truths of 'the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints' (Jude 1:3). Thus, it is deeply troubling to consider the possibility that prelates holding the office of diocesan bishop in the Catholic Church may be separated or not in full communion because of heresy.... a cardinal of the Catholic Church, like any other Catholic who denies settled Catholic teaching, embraces heresy, the result of which is automatic excommunication .... Only the pope can remove a cardinal from office or dismiss him from the clerical state in the case of heresy or other grave crimes. If he does not do so, the unseemly prospect arises of a cardinal, excommunicated latae sententiae due to heresy, voting in a papal conclave. We must pray that the Holy Spirit will not let this happen, and will inspire anyone who espouses heretical views to renounce them and seek reconciliation with our Lord and his Church" (Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, 2/28/23).
• "Paprocki compared contemporary conversations about heresy to the Church’a Arian crisis of the fourth century" (The Pillar, 2/28/23).

• 3/5/23 (2nd Sunday of Lent): "This is My beloved Son... Listen to Him"