Father Paul Kramer: There is a 'defect of intention' in Benedict's act of renunciation; he is still the pope.
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The knucklehead blogger is too obtuse to grasp that there is a 'defect of intention' in Benedict's act of renunciation; which is reinforced by his own words on 27 Feb 2013. Benedict explicitly stated his intention to not relinquish entirely the papal munus of office. Case closed. Benedict is still the pope. Within days after his renunciation, Mons. Gänswein emphasized that Benedict still considered himself in some limited capacity to be pope. He has now explained that more completely. What is incredible is that the "conservative" NO people and the semitrads (pseudotrads) are frothing at the mouth against the idea that Benedict is still the only man in white with a valid hold on the papacy. What they have all failed to notice is that Benedict has not issued any denial of what Gänswein has so publicly stated to be not his own opinion, but the mind of Pope Benedict himself. "Francis" has replied only an ambiguous one liner: "There is only one pope" -- but he did not say that the only one pope is himself!"
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Sixth. It is true of faith that the pope has full authority over all. As Christ said to Peter: and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.(Mt. XVI, 19). If there were two popes at once one would have more power than the other, or not? If one did not have more power than the other, neither would be pope because the pope has authority over all, as stated above. If the lower had it he would not be pope. So the Lord promised speaking by Ezekiel: I will save my flock, and will never be prey to the nations; I will raise up for her only one pastor, who will shepherd them (Ez. XXXIV, 28 and 31). For all these reasons it is clear that it is wrong to believe that the two chosen in question are true popes. Therefore, erring very seriously who, in an effort to obtain graces and dispensations, or achieve any kind of privileges, go to each other, revering like real popes. For being true that both cannot be popes one of them is an apostate and anti-pope. It is clear that those in their pleas revere both as such; they can not escape to the penalties and curses prescribed at the canon of the Decree begins in the name of the Lord ...(J. Gratianus, Decretum (Concordantia discordantium canonum) 1, dist. 23, e. 1 : 44 In nomine Domini"). And no one can be excused in this ignorance, as will be seen in what follows. Link