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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Bergoglio was never pope because he was a foreign body within the Church whose divine providence definitively separated him from it. An example to understand this is Tyconius, whom Benedict XVI liked to remind him of:
"Augustine read this comment [by Tyconius] and took advantage of it, but he strongly stressed that the Church is in the hands of Christ, remains his Body, forming with Him a single subject, participating in the mediation of grace. Therefore, it underlines that the Church can never be separated from Jesus Christ."
Therefore, the Church is in this situation in the desert today. And this is where the Universo Dominici Gregis comes in, articles 76 and 77, with the non-abdication of the Munus petrinum by Ratzinger; Catholics are entrusted to the same providence, the continuity of which in the succession of St. Peter in the Church will remain.
Of course, choices will always have consequences, as every decision will have consequences for good or bad. But it is a call to embrace the cross spontaneously in order to actively participate in the same divine providence in the Church of Christ. Therefore, it is a purpose for good.