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The Invalid Resignation Thesis regarding Benedict XVI: Steven O’Reilly refutes Dr. Edmund Mazza
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A closer look at Mr. Coffin’s evidence: Dr. Mazza’s Thesis 3.0

April 22, 2022 (Steven O’Reilly) – Benepapism appears to have some momentum, with the publication of a couple or more books over the last …
Ultraviolet
@James A Mitchell A pope, though lawfully elected, doesn't have to be good and some before Francis were much worse. ;-)
James A Mitchell
The debate is not over how sinful a pope is generally, but whether he is a manifest and obstinate heretic. Fidelity to the deposit of faith is essential to the Petrine office, personal impeccability is not.
James A Mitchell
So many reasons why it is impossible for Francis NOT to be pope, and so many reasons why it is impossible for Francis TO BE pope. Hoping Pope Francis will bump into anti-Pope Francis in a Vatican corridor and they will cancel each other out with a flash of light, "zap" and "sizzle".
Bazsó-Dombi Attila
@Mathatias Maccabeus
Evidences do not need to be declared! If you accept the Catechism, you have double evidence:
CCC 675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.26 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth27 will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent …More
@Mathatias Maccabeus
Evidences do not need to be declared! If you accept the Catechism, you have double evidence:
CCC 675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.26 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth27 will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.28
26 Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12.
27 Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20.
28 Cf. 2 Th 2:4-12; I Th 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; I Jn 2:1 8, 22.
Bazsó-Dombi Attila
Poor knight of the dark...
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Bazsó-Dombi Attila
You set yourself to live in a hypothetic unreal globe of a ceased normal ecclesiastical and social dream and you don't want to see the radically changed, tremendous eschatological reality.
Bazsó-Dombi Attila
Of course, in your infantile Hasmonean dream-land.
Ultraviolet
@Live Mike Maybe I should just text-bomb the comments with hot-links to all my Refutation posts. :D At least they're OC.