[Marchmain]

Yes, he’s still a bishop and a cardinal. Those don’t disappear when a man becomes pope. He’s a retired pope.

[nickcarraway]

Those don’t disappear when a man becomes pope.

No they don't. But he is no longer the pope.

He’s a retired pope

There's no such thing as a retired pope.

He did not vote in the last conclave. or any future conclaves. Once he abandoned, he's still a priest, but not anything else.

[nickcarraway]

It's a shame the former Pope never read King Lear, if ever there was a man who needed to read it, it was him.

All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. [Act I, Scene IV 153-154] Why, after I have cut the egg i' th' middle and eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i'... [Act I, Scene IV 162-163] Too bad the former Pope didn't have a fool. The fool would have made great sport of him.

[nickcarraway]

We should have known then-Cardinal Ratzinger wasn't cut out to be pope, when he admitted he couldn't read St. Thomas Aquinas.

Earlier popes never would have let him get that far not properly educated.

[ebb tide]

He’s a retired pope.

There has never before been "a retired pope". All former popes who renounced their see, reverted to their former status (whether it be priest, bishop, or cardinal) and dropped the name they had chosen when elected.

In other words Joseph Ratzinger is either now Cardinal Ratzinger or he is Pope Benedict XVI and Bergoglio is a fraud.

There's no such thing as a dual papacy as the goofball Ganswein claims.