Pope Francis “has made a lot of heretical statements,” the famous Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert told Gloria.tv (video below, German) (May 31).
Seifert stresses that the list of seven heresies contained in the April letter of eighty scholars is “not exhaustive.” He remembers that Francis has also claimed that evil souls vanish after death or that hell is empty.
The Abu Dhabi declaration is for Seifert “more than heretical, it is actually apostatical.”
Seifert believes that a pope who spreads objective heresies, loses his office, however, there is no competent authority to judge a pope. Therefore only a later pope will be able to condemn Francis.
There are some Church teachers, like the Jesuit Robert Bellarmine, who argue that a heretical pope loses his office automatically but this was never the official teaching of the Church, Seifert adds.
Against hope he hopes that Francis will recant his heresies because otherwise he has chances to be condemned retrospective and to be "deleted from the list of popes.”
In a side-remark Seifert hints at the climate of fear that reigns in the Francis Church quoting a bishop who told him that he likely would lose his diocese if he would express any critics
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