5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits
Here are five really short and easy to answer dubia questions which hopefully aren't too complicated for Steve Skojec, publisher of the One Peter Five website, to answer. To make it really easy for the publisher of One Peter Five it has been formatted so that he only has to answer: yes or no. 1. Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales said "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." Was St. Francis de Sales a Sedevacantist or a Benevacantist? Answer: yes or no. 2. "Universal Acceptance" theologian John of St. Thomas said "This man in particular lawfully elected and accepted by the Church is the supreme pontiff." Was John of St. Thomas for saying "the supreme pontiff" must be BOTH "lawfully elected and accepted by the Church" a Sedevacantist or a Benevacantist? Answer: yes or no. 3. Do you think that a "supreme pontiff...
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1 – Benedict XVI abdicates the ministry, something that not being placed according to the same Constitution requires above. If the Pontiff speaks of weariness or the burden of age in order not to continue the exercise of the same ministry, then he would abdicate the Petrine Munus. Here they must seek a logic, therefore, a deepening of this question;
2 – Benedict XVI also speaks to the Cardinals, in his letter to the same College, that the same "Lord show him what he wants", in the docility of the Holy Spirit, about this future conclave, in 2013, of a "new pope"; The word is in customary use among Catholics, but canonically not expressed in canonical matters.
Finally, we hope that all of this can be understood by them, a real beginning of a new journey of faith that the Lord so desires.