Charlemagne said:

"Andy, the only way I'll ever become an R&R adherent is if it's changed to mean "Refuse & Reject."



Then unfortunately you deny the infallible declaration of Vatican 1:


 he set blessed Peter over the rest of the apostles and
    instituted in him the PERMANENT principle of both unities and
    their visible foundation.


    we judge it necessary,
        with the approbation of the sacred council, and
        for the protection, defence and growth of the catholic flock,
    to propound the doctrine concerning the
        institution,
        permanence and
        nature
    of the sacred and apostolic primacy,
    upon which the strength and coherence of the whole church depends.

This doctrine is to be believed and held by all the faithful in accordance with the ancient and unchanging faith of the whole church.
Furthermore, we shall proscribe and condemn the contrary errors which are so harmful to the Lord's flock.


and place yourself in a state of damnation.


Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors."

Pope Pius XI, Encyclical, Mortalium animos, January 6, 1928,

Mithrandylan says:



"Instead you just move on to the next canned reply, the "perpetual successors" canard.  It doesn't apply,"



Infallible Vatican 1 declares:



Therefore, if anyone says that:


it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole church;

or that

the Roman pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy:

let him be anathema.



Whose judgement shall we accept?


Sacred Scripture says:


1 Timothy 6:3-5

"If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,  He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,  Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth,"


St Augustine says:


"In Christ's Church, those are heretics, who hold mischievous and erroneous opinions, and when rebuked that they may think soundly and rightly, offer a stubborn resistance, and, refusing to mend their pernicious and deadly doctrines, persist in defending them."




The instances of interregnum are not to be confused with "there being no pope" as it is a matter of valid election and the post V2 popes are all validly elected.


Is trying to justify yourself of higher value than your own salvation? God does not hinder human free-will. It is your own choice. And you can't say you haven't been warned!