A bishop and distinguished canon lawyer has suggested that views expressed by a recently-appointed US cardinal are “heretical”.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, quoted the words of Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as an example of a church leader whose public pronouncement contradicted a “truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith”.
He took issue with remarks made by Cardinal McElroy - who was given his red hat last August by Pope Francis – in which he appeared to reject teaching that a person must be in a state of grace to receive Holy Communion.
