The current papal situation really is diabolical.  This benedict/francis duo is a design model concocted by infiltrators.  It really tells me that the college of cardinals is running the show.  It is their new model, make no mistake.  I am not going to discuss their thinking.  But, I will inform you of the solution.  The solution is to kick benedict xvi's butt out of the vatican nunnery.  It is a scandal for one that he is still in the vatican, and it is especially scandalous that he is living with nuns.  He needs to be refused entry into any nunnery, and he needs to be excluded from the vatican.  His title cannot be pope emeritus, as if that is even a legitimate formal title.  He goes back to being cardinal ratzinger, and he should not be allowed to wear the papal white cassock.

This also tells me that the college of cardinals as an institution that in its very nature(excluding the impact of modernism) is a problem.  And, that means it has always been a problem.  I think the college of cardinals is the first manifestation of collegiality's negative impact on the church.  Church councils date back to the apostles, and the council is a manifestation of collegiality, but in a good way.  However, the college of cardinals in my opinion is a manifestation of collegiality in a negative way, and it does not date back to the apostles.    

If you want or need something to pray for, pray for this regarding benedict xvi.

I have one correction.  With benedict xvi, I think the reform needed in his life is to forbid the white cassock, remove his pope emeritus title, and remove him from the nunnery.  But, he can still live in vatican city if he so chooses.  That is really not the most important thing.  But, he really ought to find his way to a monastery.   

You can doubt the papacy all you want.  +Williamson can doubt too.  My point all along is that doubts are meaningless until the Church decides.  

It is sufficient for one’s salvation to recognize that new Rome does not teach “that which has always been taught” and to therefore stick with Tradition.  The question of determining the status of the pope, and any related doubts, is superfluous.  

You can doubt the papacy all you want.  +Williamson can doubt too.  My point all along is that doubts are meaningless until the Church decides.  

To be fair, I think most who doubt would agree with you that it is up to the Church to decide.

Otherwise they'd be sedevacantist, wouldn't they? 

But you can't have doubts about what the Church of the present has decided - unless you live on the other side of the world and the mule-train is a long time coming.

Pope Francis' obvious heresies can't by themselves remove him from the Papal Office, so you can't doubt whether he still has it now.

Could the Bishop be referring to the statements by Georg Ganswein on the 'dual papacy', and the possibility that Benedict's resignation was forced? No amount of 'peaceful recognition' would give Francis the papacy then. It doesn't seem that any theologian has ever discussed the possibility of a 'previous' Pope being still alive.

But then you have to prove it was a forced resignation...

Can you link for me georg ganswin talking about the dual papacy?  It is definitely a model that the modernists are purposely using.  But, so long as benedict xvi has been clear about his resignation, and he has, then he is not the pope.  I am interested to know which vatican characters might be promoting a dual papacy theology, and if ganswein is one of them.  Benedict xvi is complicit so long as he wears the white cassock and accepts the title of pope emeritus, and lives in the vatican nunnery.  He is such a scandal.  I prayed many decades yesterday for benedict xvi to reject these three things.