When someone does a long explanation on something that's simple, it raises a big red flag, that says they are maneuvering around something that they can't say.That's what the posting of this threads long article smells like to me.
Why the long explanation?
Not all of the world's knowledge can be imparted to an individual while he stands on one foot. The Catechism is longer than a couple of paragraphs, you know. Was Belloc in schism with the Church because he knew better than the Church what was what? Or are you confusing Belloc with the likes of Mel Gibson?
One of the greatest wasters of effort is the fact that since we are dealing with writings thousands of years old and translated through several languages with incomplete documentation, we had better get our definitions straight. And leaning on SSPX misstatements is not the way to define Church teachings.
I’m just posting each chapter of his book.
If you want to know why Belloc has such a detailed definition of heresy, you’d have to ask him.
Maybe he thought it important to give such a detailed description of heresy, because that is the topic of his whole book.
Or maybe he wouldn’t have much of a book if he used short definitions.
Verdugo, are you an SSPXer or sedevacantist?