Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's long-time collaborator Abbé Henri Mouraux believed Pope Paul IV's bull on a heretic pope remained in force. What should we make of his arguments?
Cum ex Apostolatus ex Officio, I believe, is still in force...BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE. My belief, however, means nothing in this case.
Still, Cum ex is evidence that 1) "universal peaceful acceptance" does not fix problems of heresy or invalid elections, 2) heresy doesn't need a declaration to be heresy. Even if it is not in force, you still can't say that Jorge is Pope.
Pope Paul IV's direction to what we are to do about a heretic pope is in Cum ex, and it applies when the pope deviates from the faith, and it applies all the more when he is a raging heretic - he tells us when that happens that the pope is to be contradicted - - the greater the danger, the more he is to be contradicted. What he is preaching in Cum ex, is basic R&R.
In the 1st or 2nd paragraph of Cum ex, Pope Paul IV confirms 2 things; 1) that it is possible that a pope can be a heretic - and 2) what we are to do about it.
Cum ex Apostolatus ex Officio, I believe, is still in force...BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE. My belief, however, means nothing in this case.
Still, Cum ex is evidence that 1) "universal peaceful acceptance" does not fix problems of heresy or invalid elections, 2) heresy doesn't need a declaration to be heresy. Even if it is not in force, you still can't say that Jorge is Pope.
Pope Paul IV's direction to what we are to do about a heretic pope is in Cum ex, and it applies when the pope deviates from the faith, and it applies all the more when he is a raging heretic - he tells us when that happens that the pope is to be contradicted - - the greater the danger, the more he is to be contradicted. What he is preaching in Cum ex, is basic R&R.
In the 1st or 2nd paragraph of Cum ex, Pope Paul IV confirms 2 things; 1) that it is possible that a pope can be a heretic - and 2) what we are to do about it.