Benedict said repeatedly Francis is Pope even if he continues to wear the Papal cassock. Francis has Benedict bless and greet his new Cardinals. I wonder if he holds to a theory that Ann Barnhardt alluded to once, that Benedict sees himself as the spiritual side of the Papal office and Francis the active side. Benedict did make an ambiguous resignation statement, but that is perhaps his mode of expression, or just active-spiritual bifurcated Papal office. Not a Bennyvacantist, for Benedict is fundamentally the same as Francis only he expresses himself differently, and the office cannot be divided. What Benedict says, however he dresses, he doesn't exercise any Papal office. Francis does. Perhaps he doesn't exercise the office rightly, but exercise he does. Francis is there with the power, which Benedict doesn't have.