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And it's even more credible because he seems to mention this in passing and does not put any emphasis on it as being particularly important ... since he doesn't really understand or care about the theological ramifications, viewing the papacy to be similar to any political office.

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I don't see how this makes it any more credible. He mentions it because it suits his agenda, which is to portray the Church as a corrupt and incompetent institution. Telling a story about the leader of an institution getting overthrown by an internal faction right as he is getting elected definitely makes the Church look corrupt and incompetent.

The way books work is that when an author makes a claim, he has to put a footnote providing the source for his claim. This allows people to verify that his claim is true. The more serious a book is, the more footnotes it has. Now, if someone puts in a footnote that cannot be verified, that detracts from the credibility of the book and outright negates the claim attached to that footnote, since it is now not only an unsupported assertion, but an assertion "supported" by a footnote that is either a deception or the result of incompetence, either of which further detract from the assertion that has the footnote.

So, when trads try to track down Williams's footnotes and find they are false, and Williams refuses to provide any explanation for why the footnotes are false, this destroys both Williams's credibility and even more so the claims which he supported with false footnotes.

What makes his claim even more credible is where he adds the detail that Siri took the papal name Gregory XVII.  If he was just making something up, where did he get that particular detail.  Also, Williams was capitalizing on his credibility due to his background, which makes it unlikely that he'd make something up just to mention it in passing that might compromise his credibility.

Nah, the name "Gregory XVII" had been circulating for years before this book came out, mainly from Gary Giuffre and Malachi Martin, who likely stole it from Giuffre.

And if you think Paul Williams was a man who had any concern about his credibility, please just read some of this ridiculous book we're talking about. It's literally a kitchen-sink of copy-pasta of urban legends and lies against the Church. It's about on the level of Maria Monk. Just spend a few minutes reading random parts of that book; seriously it won't take you long to get a feel for it and for its author.

Siri Theory for the win, as the best explanation for what happened to the Church.

No comment on the antichrist's stupid "law."

Anyone with eyes and a brain can also see that the man who gave communion to the founder of a Protestant sect, denied the resurrection of the body, prayed in a mosque, said it is legitimate to read the OT so it doesn't point to Christ, that eastern schismatics need not accept Vatican I, preached heresy on and on and on, is the same kind of usurper as Bergoglio.

Universi Dominici Gregis is just the most recent revision of the papal law of elections. The same essential requirements can be seen in the papal law promulgated by Pius XII

https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/apost_constitutions/docuмents/hf_p-xii_apc_19451208_vacantis-apostolicae-sedis.html

Here is what Pius XII says about the process of the election when there is a resignation:

91. What has been said so far about the previous election and about the actual election of the Roman Pontiff, we declare that all this must be observed even if it happens that a vacancy in the Apostolic See occurs through the resignation of the Supreme Pontiff.

91. Quae de praecedentibus electionem et de ipsa electione Romani Pontificis hactenus dicta sunt, haec omnia servanda esse declaramus etiam si contingat vacationem Sedis Apostolicae occurrere per renuntiationem Summi Pontificis.


Pius XII's papal election law, Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis, allows a papal election to be held ONLY AFTER the death, funeral, and burial of the previous Pope. It does not differ in essentials from Universi Dominici Gregis.