To: boatbums
Yes.
It’s called “interregnum”.
By the way, have you heard of Pope Benedict XVI?
181 posted on
11/17/2017 8:37:44 PM PST by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide
"Interregnum"....a Catholic weasel word used by some to explain how a validly elected Pope or Popes isn't really THE Pope while at the same time insisting they have an UNBROKEN line of Popes going all the way back to St. Peter.
And...FYI, Benedict XVI is no longer the Pope of Rome. He resigned four years ago. But don't Sedevacanists dispute every Pope AFTER Pope Pius XII who died in 1958? According to them (you?) the See of Peter has been vacant for going on 60 years. Quite a long time for an interregnum, wouldn't you say?
189 posted on
11/17/2017 8:50:13 PM PST by
boatbums
(The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
To: ebb tide
The period between the death or resignation of a Pope and the election of his successor, when the See of Peter is vacant, is called the Interregnum. This Latin term means between the reign (of one Pope and another). It is a period governed by papal law, which admits of no changes to Church governance, or to the spiritual or material patrimony of St. Peter, save the election of his successor.
http://www.catholic.org/pope/new_pope.php
So there's been no unbroken line or not??
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