Church Historian: Pope Francis is Skating on Thinnest Ice Ever

Jan 28, 2020 by

by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:

Rarely has a pope been accused of heresy, warns Carlos Eire.

A distinguished Church historian who fled the tyranny of Fidel Castro is warning that Pope Francis is theologically “skating on the thinnest ice that anyone — not just living, but dead or watching — is.”

“It is very rare” for a pope to be accused of unorthodoxy or perhaps even heresy, Carlos M. N. Eire, professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, asserts.

However, “things would get hairy” if a heretical pope invoked infallibility, Eire explains in an interview with Ed Pentin in the National Catholic Register.

Eire, who fled to the U.S. without his parents as one of 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children airlifted by Operation Peter Pan, nevertheless assures Catholics that the crisis sparked by Francis “is nothing compared to previous crises or previous popes.”

Indeed, “this is child’s play,” compared to the “70 years in Avignon — and then all the following years of the Great Schism of 1378 where you had not two, but at one point three rival popes — and the Church survived,” he says.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen, but there’s a promise that the Church is not going to disappear and that there’s someone else in charge who is human and divine,” the Catholic expert on the Protestant Reformation, declares.

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