900 years ago, a Pope was validly elected by a minority of Cardinals via secret Conclave…could it happen again?...The Non-Canonical Conclave that Worked Edmund J. Mazza
In the early hours of February 14, 1130, Pope Honorius died. A handful of cardinals fearing the election of a particular candidate who might sully the Bride of ...
... The Non-Canonical Conclave that Worked
As Bishop Joseph Strickland has warned the cardinal-electors:
In the face of such an imminent danger, is there truly nothing that can be done except to bemoan and bewail after the fait accompli?
I believe there is.
I believe that Church history provides us a solution—perhaps the only solution—to this desperate situation.
In the early hours of February 14, 1130, Pope Honorius died. A handful of cardinals fearing the election of a particular candidate who might sully the Bride of Christ, dispensed with canon law and elected one of their own as Pope without even informing the rest of the college that the current Pontiff was dead. The new Pope was consecrated in the Lateran Basilica and took the name “Innocent II.”
When the rest of the cardinals learned about these early morning machinations, they immediately held their own conclave that afternoon, electing and consecrating “Pope Anacletus II.” Anacletus received the support of the majority of cardinals, clergy and lay people of Rome and after fighting in the streets between supporters of both claimants, Innocent fled Rome. Anacletus, on the other hand ruled from Rome for eight years, excommunicating Innocent and his supporters. But Innocent found a powerful protector in St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the greatest figure of twelfth-century Europe. The Cistercian abbot was a one-man dynamo in the cause of restoring Innocent to the Chair of Peter. The saint coaxed and cajoled the King of France, the King of England, and the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany along with scores of bishops and abbots into supporting Innocent as the rightful Pope until, in the end, only the Norman King of Sicily maintained his allegiance to Anacletus.
In 1138, Anacletus died, and St. Bernard then managed to convince his Roman successor to step down in favor of Innocent. Innocent then proceeded to convoke an ecumenical council of the Church, the Second Lateran Council in which he declared Anacletus an antipope and annulled all his actions.
How can this long forgotten episode in Church history provide a solution to our own impending disaster? Simply this. If the secret conclave in violation of canon law which produced Innocent II was subsequently validated and approved—why can’t the good cardinals of the Church do the same thing today? Why shouldn’t Cardinals Burke, Sarah, Muller et al not hold their own preemptive conclave and announce one of their own as the new Pope “Pius XIII” in order to avert an apostate from becoming “Francis II”? Possession is 9/10 of the law. Will all the heterodox bishops and the fake news media cry “schism”? Of course they will. But if world leaders like President Trump, Xavier Milei of Argentina and Giorgia Meloni of Italy, as well as faithful media backed the Traditional Pope (as did the Kings of Christendom 900 years ago) all that would matter is that he ultimately prevails even if the struggle took years as it did in Innocent’s case. As doctor of the Church, St. Alphonsus Ligouri teaches:
It makes no difference that in past ages some Pope was illegitimately elected or fraudulently usurped the Pontificate. It is sufficient that he be afterwards accepted by the whole Church, for by such acceptance, he is made the true and legitimate Pontiff.[1]
[1] St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Verita Della Fede, Part III, Ch. VIII
https://onepeterfive.com/the-non-canonical-conclave-that-worked/
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church.
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.
Conclave Notes:
-- Open letter urges Pope Leo XIV to correct ‘scandalous incoherence’ in Amoris Laetitia...[Wow! Even notorious Popesplainer Fr.] Harrison warns that Pope Francis taught a ‘dangerous self-contradiction’ on Communion for the divorced and ‘remarried,’ petitioning Pope Leo to correct the record. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/08/open-letter-urges-pope-leo-xiv-to.html]
-- 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? [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/are-cardinals-who-will-participate-in.html]
-- Pray for the soul of Francis, but now it is time for all the Catholic Cardinals, Bishops & pundits who have been saying that nothing can be addressed until he dies to be held accountable to act [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/pray-for-soul-of-francis-but-now-it-is.html]
-- 5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/06/5-dubia-questions-for-steve-skojec.html]
-- DEFINE WONDERFUL: An Open Letter to John-Henry Westen, Deacon Fournier and Bishop Strickland [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/07/define-wonderful-open-letter-to-john.html
Francis Notes:
l– 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 [J6] 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.
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