Thor likes to promote this "he lost the papacy" argument while ignoring the fact that the last four popes have also apparently published "formal" heresies -thus supposedly incurring excommunication, etc.

One group of critics found at least thirty different heresies in just ONE of Cardinal Ratzinger/ Benedict XVI's books.

www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/…/principles-of-c…

...and Benedict XVI wrote a whole bunch of books like that.

You fail or pretend fail to understand the expression “sitting pope.”
I asked you many times to produce one single doctrinal heresy promulgated by a sitting pope
A sitting pope is one sitting in office in the Chair of St. Peter.
Cardinals are not sitting popes
What a man writes before he is elected pope be it heresy is not applicable to him when he is elected pope provided he does not promulgate it.

But you are completely unable to understand this simple distinction just as you fail to understand the distinction between papal ministry and papal office..

You fail or pretend fail to understand the expression "sitting pope."

The "sitting" Pope right now is Francis, not Benedict. Your first error.

"I asked you many times to produce one single doctrinal heresy promulgated by a sitting pope"

Surely you don't need me to present information about Francis, do you?

If you meant Benedict XVI, he isn't a sitting pope. He's a retired pope. If you want heresies he "promulgated" during his papacy, that's easy enough.

www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/…/anti-pope-bened…

Let's see how long it takes for you to complain that because I didn't personally re-write each instance of heresy, no evidence has been presented.

It's a silly claim on your part, and self-evidently wrong. A source of information stands on its own merits, whether I re-write its contents or not.

By contrast you never refute all those examples. Not even once.

We've discussed your "ministry vs. office" cannard before. Benedict resigned is ministry "in such a way " (his words) the See of Rome would be vacant and a new Pope would have to be elected.

You like to argue, falsely, that because Benedict XVI did not explicitly use the word "office" he didn't resign it. That's contradicted by what he DID say. The only criteria the fills Benedict's explicitly stated criteria for his resignation must include the office of Pope.

Further, he chose a title, "Emeritus" that only applies to someone who has resigned an office.

Deuteronomy 32-33.

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.
“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.