A bishop's thoughts on antipopes

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I post this merely as a newsworthy item. It has been quite some time in Church history when a bishop has raised this issue. I make no comment on the bishop’s argument other than to say that it is quite true that historically, this is not unprecedented in Church history.

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The only good reason to post an article that proposes Pope Francis’ election was invalid, would be to argue against it.

Is that your goal?
 
I don’t know that I’d call a blog post “newsworthy”.
 
True. But that makes it newsworthy in a way that I dont think the OP intended!
 
The Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi truly denies that Pope Francis is a valid pope? If his excellency retired in 1997, I assume he is now in his late 90s? Perhaps all we should do is pray for this very elderly bishop.
 
What an ugly blog. The writer’s aim is clear- to undermine that papacy of Francis.

Its wrong-headed at best and sinful at worst.
 
Clicked the link. Didn’t see anything on a Bishop or former Bishop commenting on antipopes.

We have had some. And heterodox Bishops too. Arius (of the Arian heresy for one).

By their fruits you shall know them.

Popularity has nothing to do with proving orthodoxy.

Luke 6:26 Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.

Please maybe repost the link or quote the germain part of it.
 
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same site as OP … but different page. Lists some antipopes back in the early 1000s and in the 1300s. < somewhat down the page.

Some of the writing is attributed to Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas
 
What a stupid article. I can’t believe I wasted ten minutes of my life reading it.
 
From the article ::
Pope Benedict XVI did not renounce the divine office that in 2005 made him Vicar of Christ, but only to the ministry of Bishop of Rome and to the administrative offices of the Papacy, by declaring (speech of February 27, 2013) that he would maintain the ” petrino primacy “, for which he showed that he still carries on his shoulders the burden and the vocation of being the Vicar of Christ. That can not be renounced, it is a quality “ad vitam” granted by Christ to Peter and his successors.
Pope Ratzinger pronounced, one day before taking the helicopter to temporarily retire to Castel Gandolfo, a speech that clarifies the situation that keep the two “Popes” who currently live in Rome.
In that speech he referred to the invitation he received from God when he was elected San Pedro’s successor on April 19, 2005. On that occasion he said (paragraph 23) that the vocation he received from Christ is ad vitam (for life) and that, for that reason, he will never be able to renounce it (as all Popes always understood in the history of the Church): “He is always also a forever, there is no more a return to the private”. “My decision to renounce the active exercise of ministry does not revoke this (the Petrine primacy).”
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I think for this to have any substance Benedict would have to challenge the legitimacy of Francis along with a substantial number of Cardinals. That is not the world that we are living in.
 
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Though it may be the pipe dream of some tiny fringe of odd-ball Catholics on the web.
 
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