The history of the popes from the close of the Middle Ages: drawn from the secret archives of the Vatican and other original sources[/url]]A Nicola Farnese in the service of the Antipope Clement VII...
VII. [Robert of
Geneva], Anti-
Pope, 16 n. i.
It refers to him as an antipope, not as a true pope. There is no mention at all of Benedict XIII, Alexander V, or John XXIII.
Roscoe, I see no logical reason at all to say that there were ever two legitimate popes reigning at the same time.
Don't you see how ridiculous that is? That is saying that the body of Christ on earth has two heads. Or that saying there are two bodies of Christ on earth.
Very interesting disciplinary teaching of the Holy Catholic Church:
We altogether forbid one and the same city or diocese to have more than one bishop, as if it were a body with several heads like a monster. But if for the aforesaid reasons urgent necessity demands it, the bishop of the place may appoint, after careful deliberation, a catholic bishop who is appropriate for the nations in question and who will be his vicar in the aforesaid matters and will be obedient and subject to him in all things. If any such person behaves otherwise, let him know that he has been struck by the sword of excommunication and if he does not return to his senses let him be deposed from every ministry in the church, with the secular arm being called in if necessary to quell such great insolence.
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