After reading Fr Cekada's great response to the R/R position of the mid 90s, he brought up Paul IV. How does sedeprivationism get around this from Cuм Ex Apostolatus Officio?
This has been addressed many times.
cuм ex is a legislative / disciplinary decree, and not primarily doctrinal (though there are some implied doctrinal principles), and the docuмents issued by St. Pius X and Pius XII seemed to indicate otherwise. What Paul IV was doing here was in fact by his decree pre-emptively removing them from office, thereby also removing the formal link to offices held by manifest heretics ... but it does not run counter to sede-privationism, but in fact reinforces it. Sedeprivationism is also implicit in the writings of St. Robert Bellarmine, where he distinguishes in the case of Nestorius someone who lost authority since he began to preach heresy (aka manifest his heresy pertinaciously) losing authority while being in a state of
excommunicandus ... relying on the teaching of Pope St. Celestine. So Nestorius lost all authority, but was not officially removed (
excommunicatus) but rather in a state of pending excommunication
excommunicandus.
Straight SVism is untenable due to the
argumentum ad absurdum of allowing Father Cekada's "Aunt Helen" to wake up one morning during the reign of Pope Pius XII (or a future Pope Pius XIII) and decided that the See is vacant because she had discovered heresy in his teaching.