Was Albino Luciani a Heretic Prior to His Election?

In God's Name, page 24: If you come across error, rather than uprooting it or knocking it down, see it you can trim it patiently, allowing the light to shine upon the nucleus of goodness that usually is not missing even in erroneous opinions.

And this is certainly not a Catholic attitude!

In God's Name, page 33: 1. It is easier, given the confusion caused by the press, to find married persons who do not believe they are sinning.  If this should happen, it may be opportune, under the usual conditions, not to disturb them.  2. Toward the penitent onanist, who shows himself to be both penitent and discouraged, it is opportune to use encouraging kindness, within the limits of pastoral prudence..  3. Let us pray that the Lord may help the Pope to resolve this question.  There has never perhaps been such a difficult question for the Church-both for the intrinsic difficulties and for the numerous implications affecting other problems, and for the acute way in which it is felt by the vast mass of the people.

In God's Name, page 60:  Protecting and promoting the inviolable rights of man is the essential duty of every civil power.  The civil power must therefore guarantee to every citizen, through just laws and through other suitable means, the effective protection of religious liberty.  From Dignitatis Humanae, on which Luciani commented: On other occasions the Church has found itself confronted by serious situations in society against which the only reasonable possibility was obviously not the use of repressive methods but the adoption of moral criteria and juridical methods which favored the only good which was then historically possible: the lesser evil.  Thus Christian morality adopted the theory of the just war; thus the Church allowed the legalization of prostitutes (even in the Papal States), while obviously it remained forbidden on a moral level.  And so also for divorce

In the Encyclical, Quanta Cura, Pope Pius IX states: And from this wholly false idea of social organization they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, especially fatal to the Catholic Church and to the salvation of souls, called by Our predecessor of recent memory, GREGORY XVI, insanity: namely, that 'liberty of conscience and of worship is the proper right of every man, and should be proclaimed and asserted by law in every correctly established society; that the right to all manner of liberty rests in the citizens, not to be restrained by either ecclesiastical or civil authority; and that by this right they can manifest openly and publicly and declare their own concepts, whatever they may be, by voice, by print, or in any other way."

Michael Fighting

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