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To: NYer

Is there no mechanism by which he can be removed before he does any more damage?


3 posted on 12/22/2016 2:44:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Is there no mechanism by which he can be removed before he does any more damage?

No, but hopefully he'll be slapped down by the cardinals so hard his teeth will fall out when they do a "formal papal correction" in January.

4 posted on 12/22/2016 2:52:41 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ. ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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To: BenLurkin

Papa, why hast thou forsaken us?

GRRR!


5 posted on 12/22/2016 2:52:48 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BenLurkin

There are several mechanisms but they would place users in a state of mortal sin.


6 posted on 12/22/2016 3:03:49 PM PST by arthurus
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In a sense, no. I.e., there is no process in Canon Law for the removal of a Pope.

There are, however, procedures that canonists and theologians have pondered, based on the principles that 1) that no one can judge a Pope (and therefore, no one can remove a Pope), but 2) a heretic cannot be Pope.

Thus, a group of Cardinals can declare publicly that Bergoglio has become a heretic, and is no longer Pope.

Bergoglio COULD insist that he is Pope until the day he dies, but there is at least the possibility that he would resign.


15 posted on 12/22/2016 4:29:14 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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