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Pedro de Luna

Antipope under the name of Benedict XIII, b. at Illueca, Aragon, 1328; d. at the Peñiscola, near Valencia, Spain, either 29 Nov., 1422, or 23 May, 1423. He was elected 28 Sept., 1394, deposed at the Council of Constance 26 July, 1417.

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Jorge and Tucho: Two schismatics rehabilitating fellow schismatics in Frankenchurch.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, I don’t know about rehabilitating him, but I think it is possible to think you were properly elected Pope when you weren’t. Peter de Luna (as I always heard him called) may well have been acting in good faith. St. Vincent Ferrer backed him as well. (St. Vincent had incredible charisms, including raising people from the dead, but apparently he didn’t have the gift of discernment).

[Eccl 10:2]

"with the help of Tucho"

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Catholic Church getting tough!

[Hieronymus]

I care nothing for Benedict XIII, but this might make it easier to rehabilitate the Templars, who seem to me a more troubling case.

[Verginius Rufus]

He was one of the Avignon popes during the Great Western Schism. He made some attempts to end the schism by offering to abdicate if the pope in Rome would do likewise, but they fell through, and even after the Council of Constance declared him deposed and elected Martin V, he continued to call himself pope.

It would be hard to treat him as a legitimate pope at this late date--for one thing, there was a legitimate Benedict XIII later (just as the 20th-century John XXIII took the number XXIII although there had been a John XXIII during the schism).

Are Pedro de Luna's adherents called Lunatics?

[tennmountainman]

The Current Pope is a Commie.

[Marchmain]

Must approve heretics so that someday Bergoglio can be declared a saint.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Anti-Popes have to look out for each other.