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Do you believe the material continuity has been severed because there are no longer any validly consecrated bishops? Do you think Bp. Guérard des Lauriers would believe that his thesis would still be valid under today's conditions?

So I believe that the Siri Theory is the most plausible (and, quite frankly, only workable) explanation for what's taken place.  So in that case Roncalli was never even materially the Pope, the Cardinals he appointed not even material Cardinals, etc.

Others who don't believe in the Siri Theory believe that Jorge's election was illegitimate, either because of Ratzinger's non-resignation (which would have resulted in an impeded See similar to what would have prevailed in the Siri scenario), or else due to collusion on the part of the electors (St. Gallen mafia).

Invalid Episcopal Consecration would still have permitted these men to remain material Popes, though without valid consecration they could not formally exercise certain aspects of the office that required being a bishop, in particular teaching authority.

I'm not sure what Bishop des Lauriers would say.

Here's that piece of trash Michael Matt defending his support for the latest Antipope, so he can keep his revenue stream going ... and deriding "Traditional Catholics" who were opposed to Ratzinger.  They were right about Ratzinger, unless you're just a shape-shifting dishonest Modernist-heretic grifter shill like Michael Matt.  What a dirtbag this guy is.

https://x.com/Michael_J_Matt/status/1920905331305042020

I swear, if I were pope, Michael Matt and Taylor Marshall would be the first two that I would excommunicate by name, even before the Modernists, since the non-membership of the latter in the Church goes without saying.

I'd require them to do public penance, issue apologies, give their ill-gotten gains to the poor, get real jobs, and never again make a public statement for the rest of their lives before readmitting them to communion with the Church.

Next on the list would be some of the neo-SSPX types pushing various flavors of thinly-veiled Old Catholicism.

After that the rabid EENS-haters need to be slapped upside the head and/or beaten with fists.

It's like the hot or cold syndrome mentioned by Our Lord.  I HAVE MUCH MORE RESPECT for an OPEN RABID Modernist like Jorge who just sticks to his guns than these waffling grifting fence-sitting cowardly turds like Matt and Marshall, who need to be vomited forth from the mouth of the Church.  At least Jorge is honest and sincere.