José María Castillo is a priest who stopped being Catholic a long time ago , if we understand a faithful Catholic not only as someone who has been baptized in the Catholic Church but also believes in all Catholic dogmas. Pretending to be Catholic and persistently denying the dogmas of the Church is a lack of intellectual and spiritual honesty of the first order. And it seems incredible that something so obvious has to be argued from blogs like this. Mere common sense should lead everyone to accept something so obvious. I don't know if any Castillo was truly Catholic. I do not know, nor am I interested in, the evolution of his thought in relation to Christian Revelation and Catholic dogmatics. It seems that his disagreement with the doctrine of the Church has been going on for a long time , but surely only God knows on what day, week, month or year, Don José María decided that his particular interpretation of the Word of God - Scripture and Tradition - should take precedence over the authority of the magisterium, thus abandoning the Catholic flock.
If there is something that worries me, and not a little, it is that such a circumstance occurred while I was a professor at the Faculty of Theology of Granada, as well as a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, at the Comillas Pontifical Country Email List University in Madrid and at the Central American University. José Simeón Cañas” from El Salvador. Until 1988 he was not separated from teaching. Having a person who does not profess the Catholic faith as a professor and professor of theology is like having a shaman or healer as a professor and professor of Medicine . Such a thing is only possible, and not only in the case of Castillo, when the pastors of the Church seriously fail in their duty. But some of those responsible for such nonsense will have already had to give an account to God for it or will be close to having to do so. Don José María chose to leave the Society of Jesus in May 2007, to free himself, as he declared, from the vow of obedience. But even so, he assured that he was still in the Church " ...for which I have a deep affection and the proof is that I am still in it and I continue to defend it ."
There were those who said that Castillo was leaving the Company “ for mental hygiene.” He has been so pressured that he has decided to break with everything to safeguard his freedom .” What one wonders is what sense does it make to abandon only the order founded by Saint Ignatius when what has been abandoned is the faith of the Church. If anything, his action served to demonstrate something obvious. Namely, that the Society of Jesus admits priests who are not Catholics into its ranks . It is not the only religious order that coexists with this peculiarity that is incompatible with fidelity to the founder's charisma. The fact is that Castillo has recently shown us how little he believes in Catholic doctrine about the papacy . On July 5 he wrote on his blog in the RD , that great syncretic-religious portal: Canon 331 of the Code of Canon Law says that the pope's power is “supreme, full, immediate and universal,” as the Pastor of “the universal Church on earth.”