[Hermann the Cherusker]

ACRF claims that the recent conclave contained no real bishops, since all the voting cardinals were ordained to the episcopacy under the post-1968 ordination rite. All the attendees were either priests or laymen: "Fr. Ratzinger, ordained in the new rite of [Giovanni Battista] Montini [Pope Paul VI, who authorized the 1968 revision], is not a Catholic bishop." If true, this means that Benedict XVI is not a real pope.

But this is quite silly. The election of the Pope belongs by right to the Clergy of the City of Rome. It is not necessary for any of the Cardinals, who hold the office of the titual Churches of Rome to be Bishops for the Pope-elect to become Pope.

[sitetest]

Dear Hermann the Cherusker,

"But this is quite silly. The election of the Pope belongs by right to the Clergy of the City of Rome. It is not necessary for any of the Cardinals, who hold the office of the titual Churches of Rome to be Bishops for the Pope-elect to become Pope."

I think that the issue is not whether there were folks who could elect him, but whether he had been validly consecrated a bishop.

It's wearying.


sitetest

[bornacatholic]

Thanks, brother. I didn't know that.