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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So this fact cannot be overlooked in order to arrive with a coherence, for example, in the biblical context.
The disciples fled in fear during the Passion of Christ, but only the Mother of God and St. John the Evangelist remained before the cross of the Lord.
And Benedict XVI did not flee and remained faithful, with his white robes and apostolic blessings, until his death to this call of the Lord.
So we can look further into the canonical context according to this fact and this biblical truth.
The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis makes this invalid abdication clearer in articles 76 and 77. Benedict XVI, a leading legislator in the same Constitution, abdicates the ministry in favor of the Petrine Munus. He knows that you can't give up like that.
So, logically, one must have recourse to canon 334, which must be analyzed in order to understand the null action of it.
Because there is a coherence in Benedict XVI's gesture with a historical fact among the popes. For example, Pope Pius VII, with the imprisonment imposed by Napoleon, he was forced to send letters to the faithful through a person close to him. Obviously, he didn't have the freedom to express himself.
I prefer to trust in the voice of the Spirit of Christ, in the example of Benedict and Peter, who cast their nets into "deeper waters" (Luke 5:4-80).
1 – the correct passage is Luke, chapter five, verses four through ten;
2 - In a recent comment, but in the same context, I commented that St. Nicodemus during the Passion of Christ fled out of fear, in the same example as the other disciples. But Nicodemus had no need to flee: he was still maturing discipleship by Jesus secretly for fear of the Sanhedrin of the Jews.