Flashback: Does 1P5 think Doctor of the Church St. Athanasius was Wrong to Teach against the Arian Heretics that Jesus is God because "there [was] No Official Church Teaching on this Issue"?
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Francis apologist Steve Skojec and his website, One Peter Five, have
come to the defense of their beloved it is infallibly impossible that Francis can be a antipope and, also, if he is a heretic, he can't
be deposed anyway.
This time they didn't bring up the totally discredited "universal
acceptance" argument, but presented laughable straw man arguments.
The One Peter Five article claims that a invalid papal conclave that
elected a antipope can't happen during the time of Francis (which
happened during the time of St. Bernard of Clairvaux) "because the
underlying assumption is that Francis can't be the pope because Francis
is a heretic."
(One Peter Five, "Is Francis the Pope?", October 29, 2019)
This is a laughable strawman argument because the supposed "pope" during
St.Bernard's time wasn't a heretic, but was a invalidly elected
antipope because his conclave didn't follow the conclave constitution of
the previous pope.
(Whether the supposed "pope" was a heretic or not a heretic is beside
the point. The main point is and was did the conclave follow the
conclave constitution of the previous pope.)
By the way, Mr. Skojec, the main argument of Bishop Rene Gracida is that
the Francis conclave didn't follow the conclave constitution of the
previous pope.
Also, can someone get Skojec and his writers a Catholic history book?
The next laughable argument is a pope who is a heretic can't he deposed
even though Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales explicitly states
so because "there is no official church teaching on this issue"
according to the One Peter Five piece.
According to Skojec's website, St. Athanasius was wrong to fight for the
undefined teaching that Jesus is God because there it wasn't a
"official church teaching" so, like the Francis apologists at One Peter
Five, Athanasius should have sat on his hands and said Jesus isn't God
because there is no "official church teaching" defining the teaching.
By the way, Mr. Skojec, there is no "official church teaching" that a
heretic pope can't be deposed, but there is a Doctor of the Church who
explicitly teaches that a heretic pope can be "declare him deprived of his Apostolic See."
St Francis de Sales declared:
"The Pope... when he is explicitly a heretic... the Church must either
deprive him or as some say declare him deprived of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.