See new posts Anthony Stine @pontificatormax Return To Tradition. PhD in Public Policy of Sustainable Development and Green Theory. Not a Sedevacantist but I don't hate them either. [ https://twitter.com/pontificatormax] In a recent podcast called, "Vigano Challenges Catholics To Face the Question of the Validity of Frances," Return to Tradition's increasingly popular Dr. Anthony Stine again makes manifest the non-negotiable concession undergirding that increasing popularity--namely, his longstanding, stubborn, exceptional, and studied agnosticism about whether or not Bergoglio is even the pope at all. Never reluctant to apply his considerable analytical abilities and theological orthodoxy to other controversial issues facing the Church and the world today, Stine characteristically takes craven refuge in sudden attacks of radical epistemological skepticism on this point alone, claiming that, because there are many possible theories, resolution of the problem is beyon...
Archbishop J. Purcell at Vatican I on "a Heretic Pope": "The Church would not be, for a moment, obliged to listen to him when he begins to teach a doctrine the Church knows to be a false doctrine, and he would cease to be Pope, being deposed by God Himself"
Archbishop John Purcell on the question of a heretic Pope being raised at the First Vatican Council As far as Vatican I is concerned, St. Bellarmine's 5th opinion is the correct opinion and a heretic Pope would auto-depose himself. The question was also raised by a Cardinal, “What is to be done with the Pope if he becomes a heretic?” It was answered that there has never been such a case; the Council of Bishops could depose him for heresy, for from the moment he becomes a heretic he is not the head or even a member of the Church. The Church would not be, for a moment, obliged to listen to him when he begins to teach a doctrine the Church knows to be a false doctrine, and he would cease to be Pope, being deposed by God Himself . If the Pope, for instance, were to say that the belief in God is false, you would not be obliged to believe him, or if he were to deny the rest of the creed, “I believe in Christ,” etc. The supposition is injurious to the Holy Father in the very idea, but se...