Nothing in that language precludes the heretic being elected and "automatically" and "immediatley" falling "without need for any further action" because the heretic deposes himself.
Think long and hard about Jorge having "absolute jurisdiction over the whole world."
Can you live with that?
Before I was banned, QVD (if I remember correctly) showed that Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis §34 abrogated cuм Ex Apostolatus Officio but only for an "election." So again, the instant after election, the heretic falls "automatically" and "immediately" "without further action."
Besides, who thinks that Canon Law can legitimately trump Divine Law? Only Pharisees and neo-Pharisees.
It is so complicated that only one with competence and jurisdiction can have a dispositive opinion.
You said;
"The pope's status" is derivative of his manifest actions and statements—"automatically," "immediately," "without need for any further declaration, etc." which simply cannot be true once he accepts his election because that is an idea which contradicts the law that popes themselves have made.
The truth of the matter is that according the law, once declared that he accepts his election, he
"automatically, immediately, without need for any further declaration" is instantly the true pope. In all of Church history and tradition, the only way for a pope to be dethroned, *is* indeed to self dethrone - by either dying or retiring.
Should the pope be an apostate heretic like the conciliar popes have been, then per cuм Ex, we are not to listen to him -
"he may nonetheless be contradicted" is what cuм Ex says - which, even if cuм Ex never would have said this, doing this agrees with Scripture, tradition and what the Church has taught always and everywhere as regards how to deal with heretics of whatever stripe. IOW, because that is what the Church has always taught, that is what we Catholics are expected to actually do about heretic popes.
Deciding his status is a new idea and as such, per
the Canon of St. Vincent of Lerins, being an idea that has *not* been held as a part of Catholic doctrine through all the generations of the Church by the vast majority of the people, is not Catholic.
Because this law is the tradition of the Church, neither can we say this law contradicts Divine Law. The popes made the law specifically so that the whole world knows with absolute certainty, exactly who the pope is and at the precise moment in time he came to be pope.
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