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Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigation

We are asking for an investigation into the affairs of our own government. It is not unprecedented for a corrupt government to attempt to insert itself into the life of the Church.

Opinion

Elizabeth Yore and John-Henry Westen and Michael Matt and David L. Sonnier

• Feb 20, 2025Feb 20, 2025

Benedict XVI’s own words show that he really did resign the papacy

'If a pope renounces the administration of his office, he necessarily renounces the office itself, because the office per se entails the right to act. Thus, Pope Benedict’s renunciation of his administration entails renunciation of the papal office.'

Opinion

Steven O'Reilly

• Jan 15, 2025Jan 15, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Benedict Code’ author says late Pope’s Declaratio was not an abdication

Pope Benedict's February 11, 2013, declaration was not a resignation. It was a declaratory judgement, that is, a criminal decree that the Pontiff issues for the major crimes against the faith: heresy, apostasy, and schism.

Opinion

Andrea Cionci

• Jan 14, 2025Jan 14, 2025

Benedict’s resignation was not valid, but Vatican II was not heretical: a response to Archbishop Viganò

My position on the Council and many other issues differs radically from that of Mons. Viganò. The only point we share in common is the conviction regarding the invalidity of the 'Declaratio' due to Benedict’s not renouncing the Petrine munus.

Opinion

Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré

• Dec 13, 2024

Benedict XVI made significant errors in his Latin resignation speech: here’s why they matter

How easy it would have been for the intelligent professor, brilliant rhetorician, and proven Latin expert to provide unmistakable clarity through precise legal terms – if he had wanted to.

Opinion

Fr. Frank Unterhalt

• Dec 12, 2024

Archbishop Viganò: Secret letters shed new light on Benedict’s resignation, ‘pope emeritus’ title

In the media dramatization, the actors Ratzinger and Bergoglio have been presented to us as bearers of antithetical theologies, when in reality they represent two successive stages of the same revolutionary process.

Opinion

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

• Nov 30, 2024

Italian priest excommunicated, another laicized for declaring Francis isn’t pope

Father Giorgio Maria Faré has been excommunicated and Father Fernando Maria Cornet has been laicized, both for publicly arguing that Francis is not the pope because Benedict XVI resigned invalidly.

News

Antonino Cambria

• Nov 22, 2024

Italian priest Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré argues the invalidity of Francis’ papacy

Joining me on this episode of The John Henry Westen Show is Father Giorgio Maria Faré, OCD, a prominent Italian discalced Carmelite priest who recently declared in a viral sermon that Francis is not the pope because Benedict did not properly resign.

Blogs

John-Henry Westen

• Nov 21, 2024Nov 21, 2024

Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza

Benedict’s renunciation of the papacy was valid. He intended to resign fully his office. On February 28, 2013, he told a gathered crowd of pilgrims: 'I am no longer Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Until eight in the evening I still am but then no longer.'

Opinion

Steven O'Reilly

• Nov 21, 2024Nov 22, 2024

Italian priest could be excommunicated after claiming Francis is not the pope

Italian priest Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré faces excommunication and expulsion from the Carmelites if he refuses to retract his statement that Pope Francis is not the ‘legitimate pope,’ claiming instead that Benedict XVI’s resignation was invalid.

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Antonino Cambria

• Oct 30, 2024Oct 30, 2024

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Articles tagged Benedict resignation

Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigation

Benedict XVI’s own words show that he really did resign the papacy

EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Benedict Code’ author says late Pope’s Declaratio was not an abdication

Benedict’s resignation was not valid, but Vatican II was not heretical: a response to Archbishop Viganò

Benedict XVI made significant errors in his Latin resignation speech: here’s why they matter

Archbishop Viganò: Secret letters shed new light on Benedict’s resignation, ‘pope emeritus’ title

Italian priest excommunicated, another laicized for declaring Francis isn’t pope

Italian priest Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré argues the invalidity of Francis’ papacy

Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza

Italian priest could be excommunicated after claiming Francis is not the pope