Cum occasione

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With the bull Cum occasione of May 31, 1653, Pope Innocent X condemned five sentences of Jansenism as heresy . The dispute simmered since the work of Augustine by Cornelius Jansen , which appeared posthumously in 1640 and had already been banned by Pope Urban VIII in 1642 .

Pope Innocent X condemned the following Jansenist statements as contradicting the teaching of the Catholic Church:

  1. Some commandments of God are for righteous people, even if they want to and try, with the powers that they currently have, impossible to fulfill; they also lack the grace through which they can be fulfilled.
  2. Inner grace is never resisted in the state of fallen nature.
  3. In the state of fallen nature, freedom from necessity is not required in man for merit and misconduct , but freedom from coercion is sufficient.
  4. The semi-Pelagians admitted the necessity of obliging inner grace for the individual acts, also for the beginning of the faith; and they were heretical in claiming that this grace was one which the human will could resist or obey.
  5. It is semi-Pelagian to say that Christ died or shed his blood for absolutely everyone; DH 2005: semipelagianum est dicere Christum pro omnibus omnino hominibus mortuum esse aut sanguinem fudisse .

See also

source

  • Heinrich Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, 40th edition 2005, p. 614 f.