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That time St. Bernard of Clairvaux singlehandedly exposed Antipopes “morally unanimously accepted” by the College of Cardinals and restored the True Pope. Thank God manly St. Bernard didn’t listen to the effeminate “there’s nothing you can do” despair merchants! | Barnhardt

Q: If we can’t trust the Church to tell us who the Pope is, doesn’t that mean the Church has defected?
A: Well, apparently not, because Antipope Anacletus II was backed by a majority of Cardinals and the entirety of Rome with the exception of the Corsi family and illegitimately ruled EIGHT YEARS until his death.
Here’s the short version. You can read the long versions at NewAdvent.org and Wikipedia.
Pope Honorious II dies, and in rules established by a predecessor (Nicholas II) and Honorious II, the election of Honorious II’s successor is left to a special commission of eight Cardinals. They validly and canonically, albeit hurriedly and insistently, elect Pope Innocent II Papareschi the next day.
Later that same day, other Cardinals, backed by all the Roman noble families declare Pope Innocent II’s election invalid, except it WAS valid, as we will see, and instead elect their very corrupt boy, Cardinal Pietro Pierleone and name him Anacletus II.
Both men are crowned Pope/Antipope on …