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By Jules Gomes, The Stream, July 18, 2024
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.
How a leading contender for the next pope is changing a heretic into a hero
The Catholic Church’s once greatly feared penalty of excommunication is now as farcical as it is futile.
In 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther. In 2017, Pope Francis issued a postage stamp honoring Luther and marking 500 years of the Reformation.
Czech reformer Fr. Jan Hus was excommunicated in 1410 and burned alive in 1415. In 1999, Pope John Paul II expressed “deep regret for the cruel death inflicted on Jan Hus” by the Catholic Church.
In a twist of delicious irony, Vatican II embraced the very reforms the Council of Constance had branded “heresies” that led to Hus’s barbaric execution, as I wrote in The Stream. …
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