Abbé Damien Dutertre on Twitter

@englishtradcat @warmcover @LukeDashjr Now, according to Billuart, the Church could still follow a non pope (indeed would have to) until an absolute sign of his non being pope: the declaration of the Church. This is Billuart's theory but according to him, the common opinion.

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Abbé Damien Dutertre on Twitter

@englishtradcat @warmcover @LukeDashjr Very quickly put (and this is my speculation, and I would gladly accept someone else's explanation if better and true): I don't think J23 and P6 were ever popes because of intention problem in acceptation.

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Abbé Damien Dutertre on Twitter

@LukeDashjr Just as the fact that some people do not know personnally how to get a pope does not suspend the theological principal that the Church has to have always a legal way to elect a pope.

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Abbé Damien Dutertre on Twitter

@LukeDashjr I wasn't speaking about Bergoglio, although the same principles apply. I was asking how you could explain 1958-1965. Indeed not anyone is required to know exactly how it worked out, but this doesn't mean that theological and doctrinal principles did not apply for 7 years.

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