Schism, Heretical Bishops, and Pope Benedict XVI (Dr. Richard DeClue)

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Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Richard G. DeClue, Jr., S.Th.D. is the Professor of Theology at the Word on Fire Institute. In addition to his undergraduate degree in theology (Belmont Abbey College), he earned three ecclesiastical degrees in theology at the Catholic University of America. He specializes in systematic theology with a particular interest and expertise in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. His STL thesis treated Ratzinger’s Eucharistic ecclesiology in comparison to the Eastern Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas. His doctoral dissertation expounded and evaluated Ratzinger’s theology of divine revelation. Dr. DeClue has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on Ratzinger’s theology, and he taught a college course on the thought of Pope Benedict XVI. He is also interested in the ecclesiology of Henri de Lubac, the debate over nature and grace, and developing a rapprochement between Communio (ressourcement) theology and Thomism.

The Mind of Benedict XVI by Dr. Richard DeClue: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/the-mind-of-benedict-xvi

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0:00.0	Everything comes from the triune God and is ordered towards the trium god.
0:03.5	Right.
0:04.6	That means all of reality is based in the Trinity.
0:08.2	Communion is actually at the heart of reality.
0:11.1	To celebrate the Eucharist schismatically is a lie in a way.
0:16.5	It's the exact opposite of what it's supposed to be.
0:19.1	Because the Eucharist is meant to bring us united as one body, to celebrate it outside
0:24.4	of communion with that body is an aberration.
0:27.2	You have to have a means of maintaining universal unity.
0:30.9	If we can understand the papacy as being a Eucharistic office, then it makes it more understandable
0:36.6	to our Orthodox brethren, because they, along with us, have a Eucharistic office, then it makes it more understandable to our Orthodox brethren.
0:38.2	Because they, along with us, have a Eucharistic ecclesiology.
0:41.4	The gathering to celebrate the Eucharist is the church at her highest mode.
0:46.4	Like that is what she is for, is worshiping God in the Eucharist. Good to see you. Good to see you. Thanks for coming back. Yeah. Congratulations on that new book. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations on going with a publisher that knows how to make beautiful books. I know, right? Yeah. They really do. When they had this, they first showed me this, they sent me an image of it first.
1:13.6	I was just like, yes, thank you.
1:15.6	Really?
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.6	I wouldn't know, I see, if they had have shown that to me just as a document, I don't know.
1:22.6	It's also the binding they do and the type of cover they have.
1:26.6	Yeah, that's really beautiful do you ever meet
1:30.7	benedict no but he did walk in front of me hey let's go maybe a little further from where we are from
1:37.9	each other now he walked right in front of me and when he came to washington dc to cath U. I was there at the time and I was
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