Breaking: Britain's Leading Theologian: reform canon law to allow pope’s doctrinal errors to be established.
The Catholic Herald reports Fr Aidan Nichols, a prolific author who has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge as well as the Angelicum in Rome, says that Pope Francis’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia has led to an “extremely grave” situation. Grave enough for the top theologian in the country to call for the re-writing of canon law to include a juridical process to correct papal errors!! Such a process would “dissuade popes from any tendency to doctrinal waywardness or simple negligence” , and would answer some “ecumenical anxieties” of Anglicans, Orthodox and others who fear that the pope has carte blanche to impose any teaching. “Indeed, it may be that the present crisis of the Roman magisterium is providentially intended to call attention to the limits of primacy in this regard.” In other words – because of Pope Francis' approach, it appears to the orthodox and Anglicans and others that the pope can change anything, even if it contradicts previous teachin...