Timeline for Is the idea that a Pope may be anti-Christ, the same as basically saying the chair of St. Peter is vacant?
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| Jan 28, 2022 at 16:02 | comment | added | jaredad7 | @SLM the only hard and fast line is that a Pope who attempts to teach falsehood as ordinary and universal magisterium would cease at that moment to be Pope. The hypothetical antichrist-pope can teach falsehood in homilies, public speeches, etc, all he likes. As long as he does not attempt to make belief in that falsehood formally binding on the faithful, he remains Pope. onepeterfive.com/… | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | SLM | So, a pope may be bad and still be valid, does this mean a pope could be anti-christ yet still be pope? Where's the line of "badness", if any? | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 1:36 | comment | added | Wtrmute | @AndreasBlass Yes, but only if he is divested of this authority by either his Ordinary (in the case of a Parish Priest) or of Rome (in the case of a Bishop). They cannot latae sententiae lose an office, only ferendae sententiae. So the See cannot be vacant unless someone — typically the (Holy Roman/Byzantine) Emperor and then only at the point of a sword — causes the holder of the See of Peter to abdicate his throne. | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 1:24 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | @Wtrmute An ordained minister remains ordained and able to validly (though perhaps not licitly) administer sacraments, despite personal corruption, but he can lose any authority he had, for example as pastor of a parish or ordinary of a diocese. | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 19:29 | comment | added | Wtrmute | Affirming that an ordained minister (deacon, presbyter or bishop) can, through personal corruption, lose his status as an ordained minister (which would have to take place for the See of Saint Peter to become vacant) would be the heresy of Donatism. | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 17:34 | history | answered | jaredad7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |