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To: Arthur McGowan

That doesn’t sound like a lawful canonical process.


65 posted on 09/23/2015 12:12:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Semper Fi.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

It isn’t. There is not a word in the Code of Canon Law about the removal of a Pope—or even the resignation of a Pope. But since the Pope has absolute power (limited, of course by moral and divine law) he can always resign, as Benedict did.

If a Pope came to be universally judged a heretic, he would have to resign because, literally, no one would answer his buzzer.


66 posted on 09/23/2015 1:02:54 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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