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But if he falls into heresy, and you cannot persuade him to turn from it, separate yourself quickly from him, in case, should you delay, you might also be dragged down with him into the pit. If any man shall be friendly to those with whom the Roman Pontiff is not in communion, he is in complicity with those who want to destroy the Church of God; and, although he may seem to be with us in body, he is against us in mind and spirit, and is a much more dangerous enemy than those who are outside and are our avowed foes. Therefore, be ye not partakers with the children of unbelief.

Let us hate those who are worthy of hatred. Let us withdraw from those from whom God withdraws. Let us say to God with all boldness concerning all heretics: Have I not hated them, O Lord, who hated Thee? He who can never love Christ enough will never give up fighting against those who hate him.

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The living God has charged me to declare unto you that He will punish those who will not avenge Him against His enemies. Joined in friendship with those who hate the Lord, you truly deserve the wrath of God! I pray God that some of us, as high as we seem to sit treading heretics under our feet like ants, that we live not to see the day we would gladly wish to be at league and composed with them, to let them have their churches quietly to themselves so that they would be content to let us have our quietly to ourselves.

So great is my aversion for the company of heretics, or of conversation with them, that I say we ought not even go near them. Anthony the Abbot would not speak to a heretic, except to exhort him to the true faith; and he drove all heretics from his mountain, calling them venomous serpents. I was to either convert hypocrites to the way of salvation, or reject them and refrain from associating with them.

I entreat you to shun, whenever possible, the society of those who profess false doctrines. All our safeguards are of little avail against the ills that threaten us. Suffice it that we have the joy of belonging to the family of God. Above the brotherhood of humanity and fatherland, there is a brotherhood infinitely more sacred and precious, the brotherhood which makes us one in Christ, namely: The "peacemakers" are those who, keeping aloof from the scandal of dissention and discord, preserve the love of fraternal charity and the peace of the Church under the unity of the Catholic faith.

Therefore, he, who would not continue as one with the brethren, having followed heretics, goes forth as an antichrist. One might properly and truly say that there is a Church of Evil-doers, that is, the assemblies of the heretics. And we charge you, brethren, in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received from us. Therefore, if by the sin of Judas, all the Apostles were put in danger, let us by this warning be on our guard against the unbelieving and against the traitor.

But because you would not stay away from that wicked excommunicated person, you yourself shall die! Are heretics and schismatics excommunicated? Yes; they have no part in the Communion of the Saints. Catechism of the Summa. If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting-houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion. If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion.

II Council of Constantinople. That Christians and ecclesiastics should pray for Christian unity under the direction of heretics and, what is worse, according to an intention which is radically impregnated and vitiated with heresy, is absolutely impossible to tolerate! One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics. Since you are not of my religion, I ought not to join in prayer with you; but I will pray heartily for you: I will not pray with you, nor shall you pray with me; neither will I say "Amen" to your prayers, nor shall you to mine!

We decree that those who give credence to the teachings of the heretics, as well as those who receive, defend or patronize them, are excommunicated. It is not right that one who has been condemned and cast out by the Apostolic See of Rome for his wrong opinions should be named with any kind of honour until he be received by her, having returned to her by a pious confession and orthodox faith.

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You have no right to receive a heretic into your communion. Therefore, receive into communion those who teach and think as I do; but refuse those who are otherwise minded, and hold them as strangers to God and to the Catholic Church. In the celebration of the sacred mysteries, there should not be recited the names of those who have been separated from communion with the Catholic Church. III Council of Constantinople. Cut off the decayed flesh, expel the mangy sheep from the fold, lest the whole house, the whole paste, the whole body, the whole flock, burn, perish, rot and die!

These men are Protestants; they are heretics! Have nothing to do with them! I will live and die in the true Roman Catholic faith, which I and all antiquity have always professed; and I will by no means go to Protestant churches. With regard to heretics, two arguments must be observed: On their own side, there is the sin whereby they deserve to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death. For it is a much more serious matter to corrupt the faith which gives life to the soul than to counterfeit that which supports temporal life.

Wherefore, if counterfeiters and other evil-doers are immediately condemned to death by the secular authorities, there is much more reason for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, not only to be excommunicated but even put to death. On the part of the Church, however, there is mercy, which looks to the conversion of the wanderer; wherefore, she condemns not at once, but "after the first and second warning", as the Apostle directs Titus 3: After that, if he is still stubborn, the Church, no longer hoping for his conversion, looks to the salvation of others by excommunicating him and separating him from the Church; and, furthermore, she delivers him over to the secular tribunal, thereby to be exterminated from the world by death.

I entirely detest heretics, and as Magistrate do promise assiduously to perform my duty in investigating them. Heresy is a kind of treason, and if a heretic persisteth in his false belief, he may be handed over to be burned. Error will never be suppressed unless the criminal elements of depravity be consumed in flames. Christ did not forbid us to reprove heretics, to silence their mouths, to restrict their liberty of speech, to scatter their assemblies.

If heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command. That it is against the will of the Spirit to burn heretics at the stake is condemned as false. The Holy Roman Catholic Church condemns, disapproves, anathematizes, and declares to be separated from the Body of Christ, which is the Church, everyone who holds any contrary opinions.

It is a blessing when such men break away from the Church: It is impossible to join and combine the bitter with the sweet, darkness with light, rain with fair weather, war with peace; nor sterility with fertility, aridity with springs of water, or a storm with a calm. Make no mistake, my brethren, they shall suffer everlasting punishment who endeavour to corrupt the Church of Christ.

Whosoever sets at nought His doctrine shall go into Hell, and so shall everyone who listens to him.

Or what portion does truth have with falsehood? Or unrighteousness with unrighteousness? Or true doctrine with that which is false?

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There is no concord between the love of this world and the love of God; and he who will not separate himself from the children of this world shall not belong to the children of God. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. I should not think of any relatives other than the saints in Heaven.

For if faith be injured, let honour due to parents be lost as stale and tottering; let even the law of tender love towards children and brothers be silenced!

I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who make dissentions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and to avoid them. They do have Baptism [ But they will not come to the same inheritance of eternal life unless they return to the Catholic Church.

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A man who is a heretic, after the first and second admonition avoid: Turn your thoughts away from a non-Catholic, turn away your ears, so that you may have strength to grasp life everlasting through the one, true and holy Catholic Church. Our Lord warns all the faithful: Saint Anthony's devotion to the faith was wonderful.

He never held communion with the Meletian schismatics, knowing their wickedness and rebellion from the beginning; neither did he have friendly converse with the Manichees or any other heretics, except only to warn them to return to their duty, believing and teaching that their friendship and society was harmful and ruinous to the soul. Thus also he loathed the Arian heresy, and taught all men neither to go near them nor to partake in their bad faith.

Once, when some of the Ariomanites came to him and he questioned them and found them to be misbelievers, he drove them from the hill, crying that their words were worse than the venom of serpents. Do not treat with a man without religion. Kindle Edition File Size: Share your thoughts with other customers.

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