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To: BenLurkin

In a sense, no. I.e., there is no process in Canon Law for the removal of a Pope.

There are, however, procedures that canonists and theologians have pondered, based on the principles that 1) that no one can judge a Pope (and therefore, no one can remove a Pope), but 2) a heretic cannot be Pope.

Thus, a group of Cardinals can declare publicly that Bergoglio has become a heretic, and is no longer Pope.

Bergoglio COULD insist that he is Pope until the day he dies, but there is at least the possibility that he would resign.


15 posted on 12/22/2016 4:29:14 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan

He will never resign. And I have serious doubts that a majority of Cardinals would ever declare him a heretic. They are the ones who are responsible for electing this dubious Pope.


17 posted on 12/22/2016 4:43:54 PM PST by independentmind
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