But Van Noort makes a distinction for public, manifest heresy, and it's not an irrelevant distinction . . . or does Sisco think it's irrelevant? If it was, why bother making the distinction?
**** I mean the distinction between internal, occult heresy and public, manifest heresy. For example, why does Van Noort not say that the internal heretic is not a member of the Church?
I could not tell you why Van Noort doesn't say what he doesn't say.
Could you please rearticulate precisely what your argument is, and how it opposes the position of SS, or whomever you are directing it to?
As SS say (and contrary to whatever Fr. Kramer says), Van Noort is on the side of SS:
"Van Noort: “Internal heresy, since it destroys that interior unity of faith from which unity of profession is born,
separates from the body of the Church dispositively, but not yet formally.” (Dogmatic Theology, Volume II, Christ’s Church, p. 242.)
Van Noort’s interpretation of Mystici Corporis Christi, as well as his theology concerning how the internal sin of heresy severs a person from the Body of the Church (i.e., dispositively) reflects our position perfectly! In fact, Van Noort’s three-volume set of dogmatic manuals was one of the primary theological sources we consulted when writing our chapters on ecclesiology in True or False Pope?"