I'm sure that's right there in the bible.
How did the RCC deal with anti-popes?
Not saying this pope is one. This pope was quoted out of context and misquoted so many times, that I quit paying attention.
I see headlines and wonder if he really said that or if it’s another blatant lie.
Here’s my question. It would seem like removing or restricting a divine right King. If God placed this person there, how are you supposed to oppose him? As Thomas Paine put it, that’s essentially opposing God himself.
And if others are qualified to decide he is heretical, that’s kinda like priesthood of the believer.
Anyway, Jesus gave us no hierarchical structure or model. And he instructed nobody else to do it either. That’s my take on it.
Unfortunately there is no impeachment mechanism that I am aware of to remove a sitting pope.
Let us hope and pray that the current pontiff will follow in his predecessor’s footsteps and retire early.
Well they have deposed them before, but only so-called “antipopes” I think...
The problem with Francis is that there is no other serious claimant to the office. So you cannot simply say Francis is an “antipope” and depose him. If he was legitimately elected, then he is supposed to have the blessing of the Holy Spirit, and how could the Holy Spirit be wrong? Unless they can show his election wasn’t legitimate somehow, I think the only thing they can do is pressure him to resign.
I don’t know if you can remove a Pope or not, but if a pope begins allowing abortions or homosexual marriages, then that could and probably would create a schism, whereby many Catholics would no longer recognize the sitting pope’s authority, and possibly many cardinals would object to the sitting pope, and elect another one. This would create a bit of a mess, but it has happened before centuries ago.
My dad, a devout Catholic, told me that he believes Francis will be canonized a saint. What do you all think?
He has a .pdf entitled "Bellarmine against Saurez? Another Critical Error in the Sedevacantist Thesis, John Salza, J.D." that answers the question of when and how a Pope can be removed and what the issues are.
Does he have a food taster?
Or recall Pope John Paul I who died on 29 September 1978, 33 days into his papacy - he was found dead lying in his bed, with a book opened beside him, and the reading light on. According to a Vatican doctor, he probably died around 11 p.m. . . . of a heart attack.