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To: Campion
That canon means there is no court-of-appeal beyond a Papal decision, not that nobody is allowed to have or express an opinion. You're out of your league when you start trying to tell Catholics what their own church law means.

However...as noted before to you....this is the opinion of a Roman Catholic Canon Lawyer.

Unless you're a RC Canon lawer, I'm going with what she says.

25 posted on 09/03/2018 1:01:47 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: ealgeone; Campion
Listen, ealgeone: it's an answer to an entirely different question.

Your canon lawyer evidently commented on "judging" the pope--- right? Judging? --- as in a canonical tribunal or appellate process? --- which is not an available remedy; vs. advising, admonishing, questioning and correcting, which has been done through the ages right to the present day, and is presented in Canon Law (Canon 212) as not only a right but, in some cases, a duty.

Why don't you send my comments to this Canon Lawyer source, and see what s/he says? I am sure she will add that there is an explicit canonical duty to take advice, admonition and criticism to one's sacred pastors, and all the way to the Pope when souls are at risk. Canon 212.

Plus, I am sure it will be recognized that popes can be, and have been, judged by successor popes. Ask this Canon Lawyer.

I am sure a supposed "pope" can be found to be an anti-pope if they were elected by an illicit or defective conclave. It has happened approx. 37 times that anti-popes were deposed.

Your problem is that the Canon Lawyer apparently answered a specific question about "judging" a pope --- i.e. canonical trial of a present, sitting, valid pope --- which is not possible, but did NOT answer a question about admonishing a pope, or deposing an illicit anti-pope who is not, and never was, a pope at all.

If you don't ask the relevant question, you don't get a relevant answer.

Patiently I must repeat: on all things Catholic, don't tell us. Ask us. Otherwise you are, sad to say, quite OOWBAR: out of whack beyond all recognition.

43 posted on 09/03/2018 3:09:20 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ( Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devilÂ’s schemes. Eph 6:1)
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