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To: NKP_Vet

Can a Pope be impeached?


5 posted on 10/19/2014 9:17:12 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

No. He’s there for as long as he lives.

Not all popes live as long as others.


6 posted on 10/19/2014 9:26:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

No, but he could always be declared an Antipope and a rival can be put up in his place.

Of course, that hasn’t happened in a loooong time.


8 posted on 10/19/2014 9:34:26 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I hope not, for then Vice Pope Biden will be elevated.


15 posted on 10/19/2014 11:16:26 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; Jonty30

Not impeached as such. But it is the opinion of many saints and theologians that if the Pope were ever to become a manifest heretic, he would lose the office immediately and the see would be vacant. Then there would be another election.

Now how that determination of heresy would be made in real life, I don’t know, as I don’t believe there is precedent for it, but that is one mechanism for dealing with problems in this regard.


18 posted on 10/20/2014 2:16:18 AM PDT by Claud
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