Quote from: CM

Quote from: pax

Schism requires an act of the will.

St. Augustine clearly states that it may be done in ignorance.

In which case, I would venture to say, it would not be a formal schism. Granted, the person is still in schism. I did not mean to imply otherwise. For someone in the Church, formal schism requires an act of the will.

It is not the mortal sin of schism. The pertinacious will is required for the mortal sin of schism.

PUBLIC APOLOGY

I am sure that somewhere on this site I called Cardinal Gibbons a heretic, but I'm not sure where... I retract that with the deepest apologies. Granted, he was publicly and vocally in error with his Americanist views. However, the Church never called him a heretic, though chastising his Americanist error.

I also no longer believe the Baltimore Catechism is heretical though there are some things that still sound a bit funny in there, it's the wording of it more than the actual ideas.

I am not sure why it is important to believe that the false religion you are in is the true religion; except that perhaps that is how the authors of the catechism defined invincible ignorance; being invincibly ignorant that false religions are false... Since there is no official definition of how far invincible ignorance extends, it is not heretical.