In his “Timeline of Doctrinal Errors,” we find the following entry from Athanasius Schneider:
Magisterial Positivism
Holds that all teachings, acts, and commands of
a pope or ecumenical council are automatically infallibly true, morally good,
and necessary to obey. Implicitly gives primacy to the Magisterium above Holy
Scripture and Tradition, as occurs when representatives of the Magisterium
manifestly teach or act to undermine revealed truths of the perennial
sacramental and liturgical praxis of the Church. Such was the case under Pope
Paul VI (+1978), who sought in 1970 to proscribe the venerable millennium-old Roman
Rite of Mass and forbid its celebration, and with Pope Francis, who
contradicted the Church’s perennial moral and sacramental praxis in 2016 by
authorizing the reception of Holy Communion to public adulterers, (See Letter
to the Bishops of the Buenos Aires region of September 5, 2016. In his later
audience with the Cardinal Secretary of State, “Ex audientia SS.mi” [June 5,
2017], the pope declared this approval to be “authentic Magisterium.”) and in
2023 by authorizing the blessings of adulterous or sodomitical couples. (See
Declaration Fiducia Supplicans on the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings from
December 18, 2023.) Magisterial Positivism justifies all such deviations
through an artificial “hermeneutic of continuity” or semantic exercises of “squaring
the circle,” or irrational obedience. (Athanasius Schneider, Flee From Heresy:
A Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors [Manchester, N.H.: Sophia Institute Press,
2024], 63-64)
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