Catholic canon law defines a heretic as necessarily baptised

Evidence

53. Ricoldo, ibid., prol., 1 and xm. 54. Oliver, Hist. Dam., loc. cit., Peter, CSS prol. 13. 55. Orthodox Catholic doctrine to-day is that a persona in the Church of Christ (one who can plead in Church courts) is constituted by baptism. A heretic is a persona and an unbaptised person is not; therefore a heretic is baptised. Codex Iuris Canonici, canon 87. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2274

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the formal legal sense in which calling Muslims ‘heretics’ was a doctrinal error in the Latin West.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2274
• XREF: connects to: Thirteenth-century Canon law tolerated Jews and Muslims but denied status to heretics — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 991

Broader Connections

• Thirteenth-century Canon law tolerated Jews and Muslims but denied status to heretics #corroborates (0.85) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 991