Editor’s Note: Everyone has their own personal piety. But if, after an election, which if validly done and resulting in a candidate who is capable of holding the office, for an office which is conferred directly by Jesus Christ, you have to pray to Our Lady that He confer it, at least at the subconscious level you have to admit to the world what you are really saying; namely, that Christ did not respect the election, because He has not conferred the grace of office yet.

Indeed, have you ever heard in the history of the modern papacy, of a Cardinal, within a fortnight of a papal election, praying that the elected receive the grace of office, which he should have received when he said, “Yes, I accept my canonical election”?

Your Eminence, thou doest protest too much!

If a candidate was eligible and if the election was done according to the norm of the papal law, then Christ immediately conferred the fullness of office and of the grace of office.

If He has not, it’s because the man you are praying for is NOT the pope, because the election violated the law of Pope John Paul II, Universi Dominici Gregis, OR because the man elected is a formal manifest heretic, not eligible to be elected, by reason of Paul IV’s, “Cum ex apostolatus offiico”.

And the thing about eligibility for or validity of an election: it has to exist in the moment the man accepts the offer of the office, it cannot be produced by prayer after the fact. He either was or was not eligible.

I do not want to judge any man’s prayer in public, but I do not see why this Cardinal is even praying a prayer which does not conform to Catholic Doctrine or the tradition of ecclesiastical right, unless he knows Prevost is not the Pope but wants to convince others to submit to him and to surrender to a false piety, where the faithful spend the rest of his “pontificate” praying that one day he become the pope.

Because, you know, it is a SACRILEGE to use the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain, and you are not going to merit anything but the WRATH OF GOD if you think by naming the Mother of God in a prayer, you can pull the wool over the eyes of the faithful.

Indeed, this prayer implicitly faults Jesus Christ for withholding the grace of office and makes it appear that a man gets this grace only if the faithful pray for it! The first is a blasphemy, the second is contrary to Catholic Doctrine.

As for Pope Saint Leo the Great: one does not have to search far to discover what he would do with a man who thinks that the 2nd and 6th commandments of the law are no longer rules for sacramental discipline, or who thinks that women can hold ecclesiastical authority over men, or who holds that capital punishment is always wrong, all of which Cardinal Prevost does. Just look at Wikipedia, under Saint Leo I, Pope:

Leo claimed that Manichaeans, possibly fleeing Vandal Africa, had come to Rome and secretly organized there.^[7] In late 443, Leo preached a series of sermons condemning the Manichaeans and calling for Romans to denounce suspected heretics to their priests.^[8] Eventually, suspected heretics were brought to court, and likely under torture, they confessed to various crimes.^[9] By early 444, Leo announced to the bishops of Italy that the Manichaeans had been eradicated from Rome.^[10] According to his contemporary Prosper of Aquitaine, Leo exposed the Manichaeans and burned their books.^[11] He was equally firm against the Priscillianist sect. Bishop Turibius of Astorga, astonished at the spread of the sect in Spain, had addressed the other Spanish bishops on the subject, sending a copy of his letter to Leo, who took the opportunity to write an extended treatise (21 July 447) against the sect, examining its false teaching in detail and calling for a Spanish general council to investigate whether it had any adherents in the episcopate.^[12]

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