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To: Paul46360

This may seem like an obvious question, but I have to ask: “Is the Pope Catholic?”


32 posted on 10/20/2014 8:47:07 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Sans-Culotte
If he's not, then he's not the Pope.

A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.

- St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church

38 posted on 10/20/2014 10:51:41 AM PDT by piusv
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To: Sans-Culotte

He could be a homosexual.


41 posted on 10/20/2014 3:41:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Sans-Culotte

“This may seem like an obvious question, but I have to ask: “Is the Pope Catholic?””

Apparently not.


44 posted on 10/20/2014 4:12:54 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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