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 …More
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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Pope Benedict is the figure of the wounded Shepherd and he wears the Papal Ring because he remains the Pope, there was never an apostolic succession because he did not intend to resign the papacy from the beginning, he said it and has already said it several times with what he continues to prove that his intention was not to resign as vicar of Christ but partially to the active exercise which makes …More
Pope Benedict is the figure of the wounded Shepherd and he wears the Papal Ring because he remains the Pope, there was never an apostolic succession because he did not intend to resign the papacy from the beginning, he said it and has already said it several times with what he continues to prove that his intention was not to resign as vicar of Christ but partially to the active exercise which makes his quasi resignation invalid.