Episode 3287: Interview: Bishop Spinosa & Nick on Indefectibility and Anathema

Where is our church today with enforcing its doctrine. We asked Nick and Chorbishop Spinosa as to whether the church needs to Anathematize certain prelates or simply rely on Christ to raise up good prelates to preserve the Church's and therefore support the doctrine of Indefectibility.

Indefectibility: A doctrine of the Catholic Church that means the Church, as founded by Jesus Christ, can never defect from the truth of the Gospel or cease to exist. In other words, the Church will remain in her essential faith, sacraments, and divine constitution until the end of time, because Christ Himself promised it.

Anathema: A solemn and formal condemnation pronounced by the Church against a person or doctrine that gravely contradicts the truths of the Catholic faith. It is both a theological judgment (declaring something contrary to divine revelation) and, historically, a canonical penalty (cutting someone off from the communion of the faithful).