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Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
« Reply #75 on: September 16, 2019, 01:01:36 PM »
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  • I believe all Popes have the God-given authority to teach, sanctify, and govern.

    Anti-Popes, not at all.

    If you believe Wojtyla was Pope, he certainly had the God-given authority to change Pope St. Pius X's conclave rules.

    Hence, your "Pope" Wojtyla's rules disqualified Jorge from being elected.

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #76 on: September 16, 2019, 01:06:33 PM »
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  • In the spirit of #UniteTheClans, perhaps we can agree on this:

    Señor "Jesus made Himself the devil" Bergoglio subsists in the Chair of Peter.


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    « Reply #77 on: September 16, 2019, 01:11:42 PM »
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  • I believe all Popes have the God-given authority to teach, sanctify, and govern.

    Anti-Popes, not at all.

    If you believe Wojtyla was Pope, he certainly had the God-given authority to change Pope St. Pius X's conclave rules.

    Hence, your "Pope" Wojtyla's rules disqualified Jorge from being elected.
    I'm pretty sure that all, or nearly all the popes for a hundred years before V2, all enacted their own laws as regards papal elections after they die, none of the conciliar popes changed Pope St. Pius X's rules as regards heretics in the conclave, here is what JP2 legislated:

    78. If — God forbid — in the election of the Roman Pontiff the crime of simony were to be perpetrated, I decree and declare that all those guilty thereof shall incur excommunication latae sententiae. At the same time I remove the nullity or invalidity of the same simoniacal provision, in order that — as was already established by my Predecessors — the validity of the election of the Roman Pontiff may not for this reason be challenged.23

    23 Cf. Saint Pius X, Apostolic Constitution Vacante Sede Apostolica (25 December 1904), 79: Pii X Pontificis Maximi Acta, III (1908),
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #78 on: September 16, 2019, 02:50:18 PM »
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  • It's always made me chuckle how "R&R" has been internalized by non-sede traditionalists.  It's a problem term not just because it doesn't actually describe what the SSPX, at its best, "is all about" but also because it's so vague that it applies to any position that obliquely criticizes something about Vatican II.  For instance, Taylor Marshall-- who is boilerplate FSSP in his approach to the crisis-- described Michael Matt as an emblem of R&R.  And that's just hilarious.  Someone like Matt and the Remnant crowd might indeed recognize, but they resist nothing.  If a given traditionalist position includes only behaving within the boundaries set by conciliar authorities, how on earth does that constitute resistance?  Maybe it constitutes some internal preference, perhaps even an internal principle, but if when push comes to shove they won't even set foot in an SSPX chapel, it's obvious nothing is being resisted.  
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    For the SSPX-types, the problem is with the other "R"(ecognize), quite obviously.  Recognize what?  That Bergoglio (or Ratzinger or whomever) are popes, or recognize that they promote heresy?  There's a chasm between recognizing in practice and recognizing in theory.  This has been said a million times by a million people, but if you don't use the same liturgy, sacraments, calendar, laws, teaching materials, etc. the pope has given you-- and in this case you positively reject them as far as you can-- you're really not recognizing anything.  Certainly not to the degree that "recognize" should be factored into a description of your position!
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    I do actually think that the OP is more or less accurate describing the initial impetus of the SSPX.  But I think we all do well to recognize that Archbishop Lefebvre was constantly re-assessing the situation.  His only principle was Catholic Tradition, and over time the maintenance of Tradition was something that, in his opinion, called for different strategies.  By the end of his life I think it is fair to say he had very little hope that the problem would be solved by his efforts, so he doubled down with the 1988 consecrations.  This is not to say he was not committed to a restoration, only to say that time revealed to him that the conciliar authorities were not interested in it.  By the end of his life, he had little hope that any deal would be facilitative of a restoration.  What are the reasons to hope that 2019 is different?
    Well, we have POPE FRANCIS now! The Crisis is obviously over now! (in case you couldn't tell, I'm being ridiculously sarcastic)
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    Offline Mark 79

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #79 on: September 16, 2019, 03:02:58 PM »
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  • I'm pretty sure that all, or nearly all the popes for a hundred years before V2, all enacted their own laws as regards papal elections after they die, none of the conciliar popes changed Pope St. Pius X's rules as regards heretics in the conclave…

    Don't try bait-and-switch tricks with me.

    You asked me to "specify" and so I did specify that Jorge's Team Bergoglio pre-conclave lobbying disqualified his election, rules enacted under Wojtyla.

    I specified lobbying, not heresy.

    Deal with it.


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    The “Team Bergoglio” Scandal • disqualified by lobbying
    https://fromrome.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/team-bergoglio-scandal/
     
    Rome — Dec. 25, 2014: Since the scandal regarding Team Bergoglio broke, the From Rome blog has assiduously followed the news and studied what the consequences have been.  On that account more than 25,000 visitors from more than 120 countries have visited this blog to find the news that was not being summarized or published elsewhere.
     
    “Team Bergoglio” is the name given by Dr. Austen Ivereigh, former spokesman to His Eminence, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, ex-Archbishop of Westminster, England, to the group of Cardinals who campaigned for Cardinal Bergoglio in the 2013 Conclave.
     
    The Scandalous consequences of the revelations of Dr. Ivereigh’s book, can be summed up thus: Dr. Ivereigh has written a book alleging as many as 30 cardinals did that which is apparently a violation of the papal law on conclaves, on which account they would be ipso facto excommunicated, Cardinal Bergoglio included, and the election of the latter by 2013 Conclave be null and void and of no effect. — As of this date, no substantial denial has been made by anyone of the accused, and Dr. Ivereigh has not substantially withdrawn, changed, or altered what he wrote.
     
    To continue to assist Catholics and journalists world-wide who wish to know more about this scandal, we present here a summary and links through which readers can grasp the basic and detailed facts of the case which has arisen.
     
    First, our article, The Chronology of Reports on “Team Bergoglio”, contains the master-list of all the news reports of note and blog posts, videos, audios, tweets, etc. which regard crucial information or analysis of the story: this list is in Chronological order according to the date the information was published or presented.
     
    But since the Chronology has already grown to 8 pages in length, for those wishing to grasp the facts, we suggest the following articles:
     
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    The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope, which explains just what Dr. Austen Ivereigh has written in his new book, of the same title, about who did what before and during the Conclave of 2013.
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    The Improbity of the denials by “Team Bergoglio”, which explains just what some of the Cardinals, alleged by Ivereigh to have engaged in vote-canvassing, have and have not denied. An analysis which shows the probability that Cardinal Bergoglio consented to and/or organized the effort.
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    The Monstrosity of Allegations against “Team Bergoglio” = Cardinal Bergoglio is not the pope, which explains the canonical consequences of the violation of the Papal law on conclaves, which Ivereigh’s text apparently convicts Cardinal Bergoglio of.
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    4 Ways the “Team Bergoglio” revelations undo Francis’ Papacy, which is an editorial explaining the grave implications for the Church stemming from the scandal, be it true or not.
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    No, your Eminence, the Church is not a tyranny!, which rebuts the gross indifference of 1 Cardinal of the Roman Church to the scandal and pointedly indicates the grave Crisis into which the Catholic Church has been placed by the undenied allegations.

    The other articles which reports facts of lesser interest, though important of themselves, can be found in the Chronology article link above.
     



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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #80 on: September 16, 2019, 06:14:33 PM »
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  • Don't try bait-and-switch tricks with me.

    You asked me to "specify" and so I did specify that Jorge's Team Bergoglio pre-conclave lobbying disqualified his election, rules enacted under Wojtyla.

    I specified lobbying, not heresy.

    Deal with it.


    The other articles which reports facts of lesser interest, though important of themselves, can be found in the Chronology article link above.
    Lobbying? Well thanks, that's a new angle, a bit refreshing to hear something different for a change!

    Here you have some no-name doctor who made an unsubstantiated allegation of PF lobbying for the office, and on that account the doctor thereby declares the election "to be null and void and of no effect". Not only is the allegation unsubstantiated, the doctor has no more authority to declare the election null than you or I do.

    Meanwhile, JP2, like Pope St. Pius X, dispensed with all excommunications during the conclave, JP2 even specifically said that simony did not invalidate the election -  "the validity of the election of the Roman Pontiff may not for this reason be challenged" - this is law, not an unsubstantiated allegation by some no name doctor.

    Why do you argue against the law?

     


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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #81 on: September 16, 2019, 07:30:09 PM »
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  • The evidence of lobbying is well substantiated. Despite the Team's initial inconsistencies and contradictions in their denials, Team Bergoglio's lobbying implicated about 30 "Cardinals." Consider Cardinal Danneels confesion of such lobbying (and its express goal). Your characterization as "one unsubstantiated doctor" is typical of the dishonesty I have come to expect from Team Inconsistency.

    You are one arguing against Wojtyla's law. Mind you, I do not believe Wojtyla was a Pope, so I do not believe Wojtyla could bind even a parking ticket, but anyone who claims Wojtyla was a true Pope is bound to his governance (except in the case of sin or heresy). Since there is nothing sinful or dogmatic in Wojtyla's conclave laws, you are bound to his law.

    Feel free to "refresh" yourself.

    The Myths used to defend Team Bergoglio from UDG 81
     
    by The Editor
    Rome, October 1, 2015 A.D:  Following the revelations, reported by noted Vaticanistas, Edward Pentin and Marco Tosatti, that Cardinal Danneels, in his new biography, admits that a group of Cardinals, in direct violation of the Papal Law, for Papal Elections, Universi Dominici Gregis, organized in 1996 a group which is named, the “Club of St. Gallen” — so called, after the town in Switzerland where it met, and which group Cardinal Danneels called, a “mafiaclub” — formed for the purpose of radically changing the Church and the Catholic Religion, and in recent years formally committed to the promotion of the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergolgio as the next pope:  …

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #82 on: September 17, 2019, 05:32:15 AM »
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  • You are one arguing against Wojtyla's law. Mind you, I do not believe Wojtyla was a Pope, so I do not believe Wojtyla could bind even a parking ticket, but anyone who claims Wojtyla was a true Pope is bound to his governance (except in the case of sin or heresy). Since there is nothing sinful or dogmatic in Wojtyla's conclave laws, you are bound to his law.
    I am not arguing against JP2's law because he is using, as I posted, the same law as Pope St. Pius X.

    Since you don't believe the pope was the pope, you forsake the same law of all of the popes since Pope St. Pius X, which is my whole point. I'm not sure what you think doing this will accomplish for you, but I sincerely hope that whatever it is, it works out well for you.  
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    « Reply #83 on: September 17, 2019, 11:23:04 AM »
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  • You are dishonest.

    Wojtyla's law is not "the same law as Pope St. Pius X" and the evidence is not just "one unsubstantiated doctor."

    As I have repeatedly posted, Wojtyla added restrictions, not just the age restriction, but also the laws regarding pre-conclave lobbying, a delict to which one of the participants, Danneels, confessed.

    Since you believe Wojtyla was a Pope, you are bound to his law, hence you are bound to the nullity of Jorge's "election" and the automatic excommunication of all participants, including Danneels and Jorge.

    As the saying goes, "You are hoisted on your own petard."

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #84 on: September 17, 2019, 01:06:53 PM »
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  • You are dishonest.

    Wojtyla's law is not "the same law as Pope St. Pius X" and the evidence is not just "one unsubstantiated doctor."

    As I have repeatedly posted, Wojtyla added restrictions, not just the age restriction, but also the laws regarding pre-conclave lobbying, a delict to which one of the participants, Danneels, confessed.

    Since you believe Wojtyla was a Pope, you are bound to his law, hence you are bound to the nullity of Jorge's "election" and the automatic excommunication of all participants, including Danneels and Jorge.

    As the saying goes, "You are hoisted on your own petard."
    Yes, it is the same law. Heck, I even POSTED IT FOR YOU (#77).

    You did not answer my question....what exactly is it that you hope to gain by not believing that the pope is the pope? 
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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #85 on: September 17, 2019, 01:22:40 PM »
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  • This forum often reminds me of armchair theologians flinging feces at each other like monkeys. All anyone needs is an opinion, and it really doesn't matter how brilliant or stupid it is -- there will always be someone ready to fling road apples at him, and someone to come to his defense. And then it becomes a free-for-all.
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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #86 on: September 17, 2019, 02:06:10 PM »
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  • This forum often reminds me of armchair theologians flinging feces at each other like monkeys. All anyone needs is an opinion, and it really doesn't matter how brilliant or stupid it is -- there will always be someone ready to fling road apples at him, and someone to come to his defense. And then it becomes a free-for-all.

    One of the most frightening dreams I ever had was that I was walking through the park with monkeys throwing feces at me. And I was looking for the exit and saw that there was no exit and I understood that I would keep walking with the monkeys throwing feces at me until I too turned into a monkey and then another person would come in and we monkeys would throw feces at him, and on and on, forever.
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    « Reply #87 on: September 17, 2019, 02:41:18 PM »
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  • Yes, it is the same law. Heck, I even POSTED IT FOR YOU (#77).

    You did not answer my question....what exactly is it that you hope to gain by not believing that the pope is the pope?
    It is NOT "the same law."

    You already admitted that Wojtyla added the age restriction for voting in the conclave.

    Pope St. Pius X's law, the one you rely upon, requires that all Cardinals vote.  Preventing Cardinals over 80 from voting means that all cardinals are not voting, thereby violating Pope St. Pius X's law.

    Pius X: ALL Cardinals vote. Wojtyla: NOT all Cardinals vote. Therefore, not "the same law."

    A ≠ ~A

    Additionally Wojtyla's conclave law nullifies Jorge's "election" and excommunicates all of Team Bergoglio latae sententiae (automatically), Jorge included.

    In response to your asinine 'Have you stopped beating your wife?' kind of question, I will respond in kind—What do you have to gain by believing an anti-Pope is Pope?

    I believe a Pope is a Pope. I do not believe an anti-Pope is a a Pope.


    Further, I notice that you completely avoided Danneels's confession, a confession that sinks your gratuitous "one unsubstantiated doctor" dissembling.

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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #88 on: September 18, 2019, 05:32:08 AM »
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  • It is NOT "the same law."

    You already admitted that Wojtyla added the age restriction for voting in the conclave.

    Pope St. Pius X's law, the one you rely upon, requires that all Cardinals vote.  Preventing Cardinals over 80 from voting means that all cardinals are not voting, thereby violating Pope St. Pius X's law.

    Pius X: ALL Cardinals vote. Wojtyla: NOT all Cardinals vote. Therefore, not "the same law."

    A ≠ ~A

    Additionally Wojtyla's conclave law nullifies Jorge's "election" and excommunicates all of Team Bergoglio latae sententiae (automatically), Jorge included.

    In response to your asinine 'Have you stopped beating your wife?' kind of question, I will respond in kind—What do you have to gain by believing an anti-Pope is Pope?

    I believe a Pope is a Pope. I do not believe an anti-Pope is a a Pope.


    Further, I notice that you completely avoided Danneels's confession, a confession that sinks your gratuitous "one unsubstantiated doctor" dissembling.
    You can't even quote me correctly - I said the doctor was a no-name doctor and that the ALLEGATION was unsubstantiated. Do you even read your own quotes? Do you know what an allegation even is? Apparently not, either look it up or I will tell you - an allegation is a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof. It is for this reason the allegation is unsubstantiated, not because I say it is unsubstantiated.

    Allow me to help you here. You posted from your link:

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    The Scandalous consequences of the revelations of Dr. Ivereigh’s book, can be summed up thus: Dr. Ivereigh has written a book alleging as many as 30 cardinals did that which is apparently a violation of the papal law on conclaves, on which account they would be ipso facto excommunicated, Cardinal Bergoglio included, and the election of the latter by 2013 Conclave be null and void and of no effect.
    That the law since PPVI denied cardinals over 80 years old voting privileges does nothing to the validity of the voting or election, so you're grasping at straws with that one.

    Note the words in red above, they are the words that matter:

    You are trying to push your idea that PF is not the pope, based on ("on which account") the allegation ("alleging") of what may or may not be ("apparently") a violation.

    For the record, "lobbying" is not a violation and does not nullify the election, see my post #77 where JP2 states: "...as was already established by my Predecessors..." - his predecessors state: "No Cardinal can in any way be excluded from the active and passive election of the Supreme Pontiff on the pretext or by reason of any excommunication, suspension, interdict, or other ecclesiastical impediment whatsoever; We, in fact, suspend these censures only for the effect of an election of this sort."

    This ridiculous allegation comes from some NO educated man who calls himself a doctor while relying an a confession from a NO cardinal who retired 3 years before the conclave. Could it get any more flimsy?

    You still have not answered why you argue against the law, so it can only be because you have no idea why, which explains your last few posts.
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    Re: Restoring the Third True Traditionalist position beside SV&R&R: RPWR.
    « Reply #89 on: September 18, 2019, 10:49:59 AM »
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  • You can't even quote me correctly - I said the doctor was a no-name doctor and that the ALLEGATION was unsubstantiated. Do you even read your own quotes? Do you know what an allegation even is? Apparently not, either look it up or I will tell you - an allegation is a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof. It is for this reason the allegation is unsubstantiated, not because I say it is unsubstantiated.
    For brevity I paraphrased your argument as "one unsubstantiated doctor," still a fair paraphrase of your attempt to pretend there was only one "no name" accuser who had no proof. In point of fact, not only was the named doctor Invereigh an accuser, but one of the perpetrators, Danneels, confessed his role precisely as Invereigh described.
    From http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-danneels-part-of-mafia-club-opposed-to-benedict-xvi :
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    At the launch of the book in Brussels this week, the cardinal said he was part of a secret club of cardinals opposed to Pope Benedict XVI.
    He called it a "mafia" club that bore the name of St. Gallen. The group wanted a drastic reform of the Church, to make it "much more modern", and for Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to head it. The group, which also comprised Cardinal Walter Kasper and the late Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has been docuмented in Austen Ivereigh's biography of Pope Francis,
    More details here[/b]: http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV1309_Tosatti_Francesco_elezione_preparata.html

    Your other claim:

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    For the record, "lobbying" is not a violation and does not nullify the election, see my post #77 where JP2 states: "...as was already established by my Predecessors..." - his predecessors state: "No Cardinal can in any way be excluded from the active and passive election of the Supreme Pontiff on the pretext or by reason of any excommunication, suspension, interdict, or other ecclesiastical impediment whatsoever; We, in fact, suspend these censures only for the effect of an election of this sort."

    Contrary to your "does not nullify," Wojtyla specified that any such lobbied votes are "null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it." Double jeopardy for Jorge because his automatic excommunication also disqualifies him from the papacy.
    From https://fromrome.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/the-myths-used-to-defend-team-bergoglio-from-udg-81/ :
    Pope John Paul II made it clear he was imposing a penalty upon all future violators
    Now in the case of the actions prohibited by UDG 81, Pope John Paul II uses very specific language in the original Latin.  As I wrote back on Nov. 28, 2014, but which seems to have been forgotten by the recent commentators:
    Let’s take a look, then, at the Latin original, to understand better how, not just any specific form of vote canvassing is a crime according to the Pope who “brought down the Wall”:
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    81. Cardinales electores praeterea abstineant ab omnibus pactionibus, conventionibus, promissionibus aliisque quibusvis obligationibus, quibus astringi possint ad suffragium cuidam vel quibusdam dandum aut recusandum. Quae omnia, si reapse intervenerint, etiam iure iurando adiecto, decernimus ea nulla et irrita esse, neque eadem observandi obligatione quemquam teneri; facientes contra iam nunc poena excommunicationis latae sententiae innodamus. Vetari tamen non intellegimus, ne per tempus Sedis vacantis de electione sententiae invicem communicentur.
    The official English translation from the Vatican Website, renders this text, thus:
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    81. The Cardinal electors shall further abstain from any form of pact, agreement, promise or other commitment of any kind which could oblige them to give or deny their vote to a person or persons. If this were in fact done, even under oath, I decree that such a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition. It is not my intention however to forbid, during the period in which the See is vacant, the exchange of views concerning the election.
    This translation is not exact.  Here is my own exact translation:
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    81. Let the Cardinal electors, moreover, abstain from all pacts, agreements, promises and any other obligations you like, by which they might be constrained to give or refuse support (suffragium) for anyone (sing. & plural).  All of which, if these were to occur, even when with a foreswearing, We decree are null and void, and none of them are to be held by any obligation of observance; those acting against (this), We now, hereby, bind up with the punishment of excommunication latae sententiae.  Yet, We do not understand to be forbidden, that they communicate with one another concerning the election, during the time of the Sedevacante.
    As can be seen, Pope John Paul II, at that moment IMPOSES the penalty of excommunication ipso facto, and this, not upon the act but upon all the persons who will commit the act. Thus all who commit the forbidden acts are excommunicated automatically for having committed them and the penalty is imposed not by a written decree after the fact, but by a written decree before the fact, that is, by this his special law for Papal Conclaves, Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG).
    Indeed, as logic dictates, that if this were not the correct reading of the law, then the threat of an excommunication in UDG 81 would be nothing but a flourish of words, since it would have no effect and the guilty could get away with stealing a papal election by means of vote canvassing.  Clearly Pope John Paul II was not an idiot, who merely threatened a penalty which could only be imposed after the fact by the very individual elected uncanonically by the criminal violators of UDG 81!  To say such a thing would be an absurdity and calumny.