Benedict said he was resigning “in such a way that the See will be vacant” and “it will be necessary to hold a conclave” to elect a new Pope.
The words “the See will be vacant” are ABSOLUTELY AND EXACTLY SYNONYMOUS with “there will be no Pope.” That a conclave will be needed only makes this more clear.
Ann Barnhardt’s claim that Benedict’s goofy ideas about his status AFTER his resignation make the act of resignation invalid doesn’t hold water, because the “substantial error” she points to IS NOT ABOUT THE RESIGNATION.
Every RELEVANT notion that Benedict held about his resignation was absolutely accurate: He was Pope. He wanted to resign. The Pope CAN resign. He stated he was resigning, and that “the See will be vacant.”
Once he resigned, Ratzinger became an old man who once WAS Pope, AND who held goofy ideas about his status.
But NONE OF HIS GOOFY IDEAS was about the act of resignation.
Ann Barnhardt sees so clearly that Bergoglio hates God, Jesus Christ, Mary, the Eucharist, Matrimony, the Catholic Church, and the human race, that she cannot accept that he is the actual Pope. She clings to the notion that Ratzinger failed to resign in order to keep her head from exploding.
As to your previous statements - I complete disagree.
Reference this article: https://nonvenipacem.com/2017/07/03/count-me-in-moral-certitude-and-the-invalid-abdication-of-pope-benedict-xvi-still-reigning/
In his final general audience, 27 Feb 2013, he said this: (emphasis mine)
Here, allow me to go back once again to 19 April 2005. The real gravity of the decision was also due to the fact that from that moment on I was engaged always and forever by the Lord. Always – anyone who accepts the Petrine ministry no longer has any privacy. He belongs always and completely to everyone, to the whole Church. In a manner of speaking, the private dimension of his life is completely eliminated. I was able to experience, and I experience it even now, that one receives one’s life precisely when one gives it away. Earlier I said that many people who love the Lord also love the Successor of Saint Peter and feel great affection for him; that the Pope truly has brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, throughout the world, and that he feels secure in the embrace of your communion; because he no longer belongs to himself, he belongs to all and all belong to him.
The “always” is also a “for ever” – there can no longer be a return to the private sphere. My decision to resign the active exercise of the ministry does not revoke this. I do not return to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences, and so on. I am not abandoning the cross, but remaining in a new way at the side of the crucified Lord. I no longer bear the power of office for the governance of the Church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, in the enclosure of Saint Peter. Saint Benedict, whose name I bear as Pope, will be a great example for me in this. He showed us the way for a life which, whether active or passive, is completely given over to the work of God.
https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2013/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20130227.html
"Now, combine those words with his decision to retain the papal title as an emeritus, to retain the vesture, to physically remain at the Vatican, etc etc. This is the evidence that is contemporary with the (supposed) abdication. It doesn’t invalidate the other evidence, where he says he is renouncing, but it sure is a serious counterweight to it."