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To: A.A. Cunningham

Well, yes. But being married more than once wouldn't exclude a person, the way I look at it, especially if he's not currently married. The Church would simply conclude that one or both of the "marriages" was invalid, and the whole thing not relevant to the Papacy.

If carrying on outside a legitimate Catholic marriage excluded a person from being Pope, think of all the Pope's we wouldn't have had ... Rodrigo Borgia (Alexander VI) for instance ...


30 posted on 04/17/2005 6:56:19 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Casserole with the Beans Again blues ...)
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To: Tax-chick
He can't be ordained a Bishop, Bishop of Rome, in either the Latin or Eastern Rite, thus Canon Law would seem to indicate that he's ineligible. It's for all intents and purposes a moot discussion since a layman hasn't been elected since Celestine V in 1294 and it ain't gonna happen now.

Can. 149 §1 In order to be promoted to an ecclesiastical office, one must be in communion with the Church, and be suitable, that is, possessed of those qualities which are required for that office by universal or particular law or by the law of the foundation.

46 posted on 04/17/2005 7:52:11 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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