Monsignor Bux: The Former Benedict XVI "Is Not Correct"
Benedict XVI "is not correct" when he equates his abdication as a pope with the resignation of a bishop, Monsignor Nicola Bux told LifeSiteNews.com (May 6).
He explains that the papal office is conferred by accepting the election and the call to be the Vicar of Christ. The elected cleric may not be a bishop, nevertheless he is the Pope from this moment.
Bux qualifies Benedict’s claim that he kept some "spiritual dimension" of the papacy, as “an erroneous idea” because the papal office cannot be divided and is simultaneously legal and spiritual.
Rather: If a Pope resigns, “he loses the papal office and returns to the condition in which he was before,” - which implies that Ratzinger should not call himself "Benedict" nor "Pope emeritus" nor wear papal attire.
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He explains that the papal office is conferred by accepting the election and the call to be the Vicar of Christ. The elected cleric may not be a bishop, nevertheless he is the Pope from this moment.
Bux qualifies Benedict’s claim that he kept some "spiritual dimension" of the papacy, as “an erroneous idea” because the papal office cannot be divided and is simultaneously legal and spiritual.
Rather: If a Pope resigns, “he loses the papal office and returns to the condition in which he was before,” - which implies that Ratzinger should not call himself "Benedict" nor "Pope emeritus" nor wear papal attire.
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