By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews, March 3, 2025
Dr. Ralph Martin pointed to Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s warning of the ‘unseemly prospect’ of a cardinal, ‘excommunicated latae sententiae due to heresy, voting in a papal conclave.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Author and seminary professor Dr. Ralph Martin highlighted in a recent video the danger of the participation of heretical cardinals — like Robert McElroy — in the next papal conclave.
Last week, Dr. Martin pointed to an article by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, in which the orthodox bishop called out the heresy of certain prelates and warned that such heresy incurs automatic excommunication.
As an example, Paprocki quoted from an article by McElroy in which the cardinal argued that the Catholic Church must permit unrepentant adulterers and active homosexuals to Holy Communion. Paprocki referred to McElroy’s condemnation of “a theology of eucharistic coherence that multiplies barriers to the grace and gift of the eucharist.” ….