[NobleFree]

the manipulation of his election, which may ultimately be invalidated

Anybody have more on this?

[BlessedBeGod]

the manipulation of his election, which may ultimately be invalidated
Anybody have more on this?

Only this:

[Pope] will be having a terrible May.
Those who backed him will be pushed into the LIGHT>
Dark to LIGHT.
TRUTH.
Q

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Only a few more days until May, and if it stays on schedule, we'll find out sometime during the month.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Nothing definite --- I'm no canonist and no "inside baseball" Vaticanista --- but this is what I've seen tossed around:

• Invalid resignation by Pope Benedict XVI
  • utterly insufficient and illogical nature of the reasons he gave (e.g. the equivalent of "I just don't want to do gigs like the WYD in Rio"). This, from a disciplined and logical thinker like BXVI, suggests that his remarks were scripted for him, and maybe imposed by some form of coercion

  • BXVI's failure (?) to say he was resigning the papacy, merely saying he was resigning his "public ministry," making this extra-canonical and obscure in a way "the BXVI we know" would never have done

  • BXVI retaining an extracanonical title "Pope Emeritus", form of address "Your Holiness," continuing to wear white papal clericals and the Fisherman's Ring, continuing to live in the Vatican, with his Secretary Ganswein suggesting he sees a dual papacy, "one man active and the other contemplative."

    If Benedict actually believed this, he would have changed Canon Law to reflect this, which he would have had the authority to do all along. But just hinting at it, with no express rationale, no canonical discussion, through a spokesman, at a Press Conference, is Bergoglio's signature way of dealing (not dealing) with things, and not Benedict's,

• Invalidity of the 2013 papal conclave because of impermissible politicking/electioneering by Bergoglio's allies, which entails automatic excommunication

• Material heresy on the part of Pope Francis through frequent pronouncements of a doctrinally impermissible nature (Amoris Laetitia is full of it)

• Formal heresy by causing the "Buenos Aires" statement to be published in the AAS, which means trying to impose as Ordinary Magisterium something which contradicts all previous teachings of the Magisterium.

  This latter point contradicts one of the fundamental rules of formal logic. Non-A cannot equal A.

I'm no canonist, but it seems to me that any one of those four points would be enough to invalidate the Bergoglio papacy.

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