29. Because the New Mass contains ambiguities subtly favoring heresy, which is more dangerous than if it were clearly heretical since a half-heresy half resembles the truth! (Bolding in the original).
What is a half-heresy? I was under the impression that something is either heretical or it is not. Heresy means simply wrong teaching, a teaching cannot be both wrong and not-wrong at the same time.
Furthermore, an ambiguity has difficulty favoring anything, as it is ambiguous. It could not favor heresy, but it equally could not favor orthodoxy. At best an ambiguity is unclear and could go either way, being neither really positive or negative.
This reason fails to offer any hint as to what ambiguities are favoring heresy. To proclaim hidden heresies necessitates a clear presentation of what they are, as their very nature makes them difficult to find. I can make no progress with this reason, either refuting it or accepting it as rational without more evidence. It sits now simply as a proclamation of uncertainty.
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