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Pope: ‘I’m not considering resigning but would be ‘bishop emeritus of Rome’
Vatican News ^ | By Vatican News

Posted on 03/14/2024 9:34:11 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey

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To: one guy in new jersey

I’m not Catholic, but I don’t get the idea of a pope resigning. It’s like a monarch abdicating - it gives a feeling of delegitimizing the whole thing.


21 posted on 03/14/2024 9:56:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: frank ballenger

Sheen had that wry, Jack Benny-esque, sidelong glance after making a funny line.


22 posted on 03/14/2024 10:00:06 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: one guy in new jersey
He added that the possibility remains remote, since the Pope "is in good health and, God willing, there are many projects still to be realized."

Heaven help us!

Even if there is "always someone trying to hinder reform, who would like to remain stuck in the times of the Pope-king," he said, ...

Now we have tyrannical Pope-dictator.

23 posted on 03/14/2024 10:03:58 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: one guy in new jersey

Liberal freeloaders never quit a work free “job” once they get their hands on one.


24 posted on 03/14/2024 10:10:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: one guy in new jersey

meddlesome priest...


25 posted on 03/14/2024 10:10:46 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Jamestown1630

A billion or so Catholics are feeling the same way.

When Bergoglio “came out on the loggia” eleven years ago, he famously merely processed to be the Bishop of Rome.

Not the Vicar of Christ.

Had Benedict XVI legitimately resigned the papacy pursuant to then-current Catholic canon law (which he never did do), he would have been followed by a successor to the papacy who would have had no choice but to accept the title Vicar of Christ.

Bergoglio being cheeky, and in on the “joke”, knew this, and responded accordingly. He must be getting tired of the ruse.

https://www.fromrome.info/2019/06/18/why-its-dogmatically-impossible-that-bergoglio-be-the-successor-of-saint-peter/


26 posted on 03/14/2024 10:13:17 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: FlingWingFlyer
You're right. They don't.
27 posted on 03/14/2024 10:20:50 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ebb tide

A faux-pope dictator.


28 posted on 03/14/2024 10:22:57 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Jamestown1630

...professed... (darned autocorrect)


29 posted on 03/14/2024 10:24:41 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Begone, evil imPopestor!


30 posted on 03/14/2024 10:25:33 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Chode

who will free us


31 posted on 03/14/2024 10:25:54 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Bigg Red

he sticks around like luggage


32 posted on 03/14/2024 10:26:42 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Thanks for that article, it’s very informative.


33 posted on 03/14/2024 10:27:12 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Well, Bergoglio has disgraced the Chair of St Peter.


34 posted on 03/14/2024 10:28:41 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Jamestown1630

yw


35 posted on 03/14/2024 10:29:30 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Bigg Red

It’s a good thing he’s never occupied it.


36 posted on 03/14/2024 10:30:50 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

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37 posted on 03/14/2024 10:39:47 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: one guy in new jersey

That’s a good explanation. My question is, do we no longer have a true Vicar of Christ once Benedict died?

Bergoglio is in the office, but didn’t receive the graces that a true Vicar would have been given from Christ. Is that right?


38 posted on 03/14/2024 10:59:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Well, hopefully he’ll kick off before we have to worry about titles, legitimacy, etc


39 posted on 03/14/2024 11:00:25 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: FreedomPoster

...Please Lord, either nominate an Eastern Rite orthodox Catholic or an African Western Rite Catholic bishop to replace Francis, AMEN!


40 posted on 03/14/2024 11:13:46 AM PDT by JJBookman (Leave Rome and come home to Eastern Orthodoxy, the time is VERY short! )
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