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I have not read the charges (or what provoked them), but I thought I’d start a thread on BL to hear the opinions. Not a Baptist F&M topic, but where else should this be placed?

Where's what's his face, the French guy, when we need him?

I'd call him a heretic, but then again, I'm Baptist!

On a more serious note, Francis does seem to be moving in certain areas against a 1000 years or so of Roman Catholic dogma, so I could see why some Catholics would be upset. On the other hand, they are the ones who work themselves into a corner through believing that the Pope speaks infallibly when he speaks to questions of faith and morals.

I'm not familiar enough with Catholic doctrine, or the nuances of papal infallibility to comment on whether the pope, by those standards, is a heretic, or is promoting heretical teaching. I have a friend with whom I've served on a couple of accreditation teams who is a priest, and his perspective is that the more reform Pope Francis can get on the table, and the faster he can get it there, the better.

As said above, I’m not a Roman Catholic so I can’t judge what they consider heresy or not. But everyone is someone else’s heretic if judged against our own standards.

I gather most of the people behind this letter have already left the fold. Which puts them in the same league as Lefebvre or whoever that French guy I alluded to was.