Yes, expelled is akin to grade or elementary school, as it is through the most fundamental, basic and elementary Catholic theology that we must look at this matter of the pope. Do *that* and all the advanced, sophisticated and technical theological ideas and opinions cast before us here on CI fall apart.
It is the fundamentals, the basic tenets of our holy religion that the sedes abandon - as they must in order to make it just confusing enough through their advanced theology to conform to their own narrative.
Holy Mother the Church will remain - and while, like Christ, she may get beaten and bruised, she will most certainly, like Christ, remain spotless until the end of time. A hundred heretic popes and hierarchy, along with all the billions of sheep that follow them and help to spread the heresies will never change that.
This above truth is all but inconceivable to sedes, at least the sedes who insist the Church must have legitimate popes or it is/will be destroyed - meanwhile, the sedes themselves insist that for 60+ years there has been no pope, yet they have kept the faith for those 60+ years without one thank you very much.
The question is not whether she will get beaten and bruised, that has obviously happened. But can the Church beat and bruise herself? Obviously not, and her faith must remain spotless, of course, which all have understood to mean she can promulgate no heresy.
There is no precedent of a heretical pope. On the other hand, we have much precedent on the vacancy of the See. Please illuminate me, after how long a vacancy has the Church defected? Is it 3 years? Ten and a half and three days? Thirty eight?
Obviously a defection must have a qualitative difference from a mere vacancy, a difference which only a hypothetical heretical pope can constitute.
I seriously can't understand how one may think that one moment the Church is fine and the other it has defected by the mere passage of time. Ridiculous. Please stop saying that because I know you don't believe it.
Here we have the Church teaching what constitutes defection:
These matters having been treated with thorough-going exactness, we bear in mind what was promised about the holy Church and Him who said that the gates of hell will not prevail against it (by these we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics); we also bear in mind what was prophesied about the church by Hosea when he said, I shall betroth you to me in faithfulness and you shall know the Lord; and we count along with the devil, the father of lies, the uncontrolled tongues of heretics and their heretical writings, together with the heretics themselves who have persisted in their heresy even to death.
~ Second Council of Constantinople,
Sentence against the Three ChaptersWas this complex theology? I seriously hope not.
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