09 October 2019
Word f the Day: Schismatic
SCHISMATIC. According to Church law, a schismatic is a person who, after
receiving baptism and while keeping the name of Christian, pertinaciously refuses
to submit to the Supreme Pontiff or refuses to associate with those who are
subject to him. The two factors, submission to the Pope and association with
persons subject to him, are to be taken disjunctively. Either resisting papal
authority or refusing to participate in Catholic life and worship induces schism,
even without further affiliation with another religious body. Like heresy, schism
is formal and culpable only when the obligations are fully realized.
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