Excellent post, Belloc.
It is average, at best, Matthew. The people I discussed this with at FE made the same points and more, and made them more clearly.
And why did she insist that the Pope/Bishops consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart if there were no Pope?
A lot of good your "Popes" have done in that regard, eh?
Considering that there is a need to have a Pontiff
and Bishops
at the moment of the consecration, not necessarily at
every moment before and/or after, the rather glaring failure of the V2 Popes on this front (all post-1960, btw) could arguably be looked upon more as a strike
against their legitimacy than in favor thereof.
See, the Sedes can often be so blind, they throw out rock-solid apparitions such as Fatima (as well as Catholic dogmas) before questioning sedevacantism.
Which, as we know, is
SO common among those who dispute the legitimacy of the V2 Popes.