Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed & morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Francis's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy?

... "[LizYore to Steve Bannon declares on Rumble that the] Defining Question’ At The End Of Francis: Did McCarrick And Obama/Biden, Play A Role In The Color Revolution Of The Catholic Church. If So, Every Single Act, Word, Document Produced By Francis Is Null And Void!"

Cardinal Robert McElroy, from left, Pope Francis and Bishop Thomas Paprocki. (AP Photos; Courtesy of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois)

Mark Silk

March 9, 2023

(RNS) — On Feb. 28, the Catholic bishop of Springfield, Illinois, Thomas Paprocki, accused the newest American cardinal, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, of heresy.

Not that Paprocki made so bold as to call out McElroy by name. In a Feb. 28 essay, “Imagining a Heretical Cardinal,” on the website of the magazine First Things, the bishop began by quoting directly from an article McElroy had published in the Jesuit magazine America a month earlier:

Imagine if a cardinal of the Catholic Church were to publish an article in which he condemned “a theology of eucharistic coherence that multiplies barriers to the grace and gift of the eucharist” and stated that “unworthiness cannot be the prism of accompaniment for disciples of the God of grace and mercy.”

[https://religionnews.com/2023/03/09/in-accusing-cardinal-mcelroy-of-heresy-bishop-paprocki-was-aiming-higher/]

Now it is time for all the Catholic cardinals, bishops and pundits who have been saying that nothing can be addressed until he dies to be held accountable and be obliged to act.

Bishop Rene Gracida put it best:

"ONE CAN SAY THAT FRANCIS THE MERCIFUL IS A HERETIC UNTIL ONE DIES BUT IT CHANGES NOTHING. WHAT IS NEEDED IS ACTION... WE MUST PRESSURE THE CARDINALS TO ACT."

Here are two preliminary Dubia questions for cardinals:

If it is true no cardinals created by antipopes, referred to as quasi-cardinals, are eligible to vote in a papal conclave and if the Church holds that cardinals created by an antipope lack the proper canonical legitimacy and are therefore not considered part of the College of Cardinal, so what about the Francis appointed 83 of the 137 eligible cardinal electors who can vote in the upcoming papal conclave, are they eligible to vote?

If any of the Francis cardinals are out and out heretics that is someone who is completely and unequivocally a heretic such as for example Cardinal Robert McElroy, then are they eligible to vote? - The Catholic Monitor

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

Now that Jorge Bergoglio has passed away, in addition to praying for the repose of his soul, we must deal with the damage that his pontificate (putative or otherwise) has left in its wake. For many years now, we have been hearing from the more reliable leaders among us that we can do nothing but wait for him to die. Well, now he has. Time for the advocates of this strategy to demonstrate whether they were really only bluffing from the get-go.

1. With the election of a new pope, will they finally demand answers to the Dubia of the Five Cardinals, still arrogantly ignored? Or is the question of the Kasperite approach to Eucharistic discipline simply supposed to die with Francis the First?

2. Will victims of clerical sexual abuse find comfort and a sense of justice in knowing that Kevin Cardinal "Sargeant Schultz" Farrell--longtime McCarrick roommate who somehow managed not to suspect anything all along--is in charge of the Vatican during this long-anticipated transition? Is their cause automatically victorious, because Bergoglio's battle against double pneumonia was lost?

3. Can there be two occupants of the Chair of Peter at the same time, even if we go back to having only one? Or will the egregious invention ex nihilo of the role of "pope emeritus" be permitted to undermine a true understanding of the papacy forevermore?

4. Will the same cardinals, bishops, and theologians who adopted a stance of self-serving neutrality while Francis bent the knee to Pachamama suddenly leap into action like Marvel superheroes in his absence, insisting that the First Commandment, no less, be honored by the institutional Church?

5. Was Bergoglio ever released from his vows as a Jesuit disallowing him from accepting the papacy even if validly elected, or does the Church not care about religious vows any more than it does for marital ones these days?

6. Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed and morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Bergoglio's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy as well, through the culpable negligence that has allowed this to remain an open question in the first place? Maybe lay people cannot make this determination but Cardinals can, and that task awaits them still.

The list goes on, but at least one excuse for not dealing with it has been taken away. All the nauseating revisionist history in the world about what a great guy the Argentinian really was must not be allowed to distract us, nor can it relieve us of our responsibilities. The Gospel says that "others have done the labor, but you have come into their gain" (Jn. 4:38). In death as in life, Francis inverts Sacred Scripture's true meaning, for he has made his mess, leaving the rest of us to clean it up. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. And may we be as devoted to the cause of Jesus Christ as Jorge Bergoglio was to his own.

This piece is written by a Catholic Monitor contributor.

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and 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)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html

– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes:

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020

10:01pm November 3, 2020, a hour which will live in infamy, the United States of America presidential electoral integrity was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the Democrat Machine and some corrupt collaborators within the Republican Party. It will be recorded that "under the pretense of COVID, executive branch officials across a number of key battleground states violated election procedures passed by the legislative branches of those states in a number of ways that opened up the process to fraud on a massive scale, never before seen in the history of this country" which makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks before. During the time before and after the attack the Democrat Machine and its corrupt collaborators in the Media have deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack on United States has caused severe damage to the Ameri...

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