by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

In my previous video about how Pope John Paul II declares the Conclave of May 2025, invalid, I argued from the inherent lack of juridical foundation in the claim of the Cardinals* to a dispensation, which claim they published on April 30, 2025. See Here. This regards the rule of having no more than 120 Cardinal  Electors participate in a Conclave.

My argument against their claim drew from the fact that since their claim to have a dispensation ran counter to the norms of Canon Law regarding dispensation from superiors which were never published in a juridical act, their claim fell under the censure of the promulgation of Universi Dominici Gregis, Pope John Paul II’s law on Papal Conclaves, which declared irritus — that is, to be considered as having never existed — anything contrary to the law.

However, reading the Law over in Latin, I discovered today that there is an even more direct refutation of the claim by the Cardinals in n. 4 of the law, made by Pope John Paul II, himself, who foresaw their impiety, when he wrote in Latin in that paragraph:

4. Sede Apostolica vacante, leges a Romanis Pontificibus latas non licet ullo modo corrigi vel immutari, neque quidquam detrahi iis sive addi vel dispensari circa partes earum, maxime eas, quae ad ordinandum negotium electionis Summi Pontificis pertinent. Si quid contra hoc praescriptum fieri vel attentari contigerit, id suprema Nostra auctoritate nullum et irritum declaramus.

Which in English is:

4. With the Apostolic See vacant, it is not licit that the laws promulgated by the Roman Pontiffs, be in any way corrected and/or changed, nor that anything whatsoever be taken away from or added to them and/or dispensed from concerning their parts. most of all those, which pertain to the ordering of the business of electing the Roman Pontiff. If anything would happen to be done and/or attempted against this prescription, We, by Our Supreme Authority declare it null and irritus.

You cannot get more explicit than this, when the Pope who wrote the Law said that no one CAN EVER CLAIM TO HAVE RECEIVED A DISPENSATION from observing any part of it. This concords with canon 86 which forbids dispensations from essential elements of papal laws.

And if the Cardinals argue that they were dispensed before Pope Francis died, their argument is contradicted by the ablative absolute which begins n. 4, “Sede Apostolica vacante”, which is not translated, “During the vacancy of the Apostolic See” (Dummodo vacantia Sedis Apostolica sit), nor “When the Apostolic See is vacant” (Quando/Cum sedes apostolica vacat”, but “With the Apostolic See vacant”, because it specifies a condition of time, not a limitation of time. For, even if you were granted a dispensation before the sede vacante, to make use of it during a sede vacante would be “to be dispensed” (dispensari) “sede apostolica vacante”, and thus is explicitly forbidden.

In fact, since Pope Francis did not promulgate the Papal Law on conclaves, he would have to have derogated the rule of 120, rather than granted a dispensation. But since he did neither in writings, the Cardinals’ claim that he did is purely a preposterous deceit.

The Cardinals therefore are total liars. And if they call Cardinal Prevost the Pope, they know they are lying, since this law in the Latin was read in the presence of them all.

ADDENDUM

This censure in n. 4 regards papal laws. Canon 335 says the same thing regarding all other norms in the Church, whether canons, constitutions, laws or customs which have force of law. Thus, both the papal law of John Paul II and the Code of Canon Law which he promulgated confirm that the Bulls of Paul IV and Nicholas II remain in force, in those matters where they have never been abrogated, derogated, subrogated or obrogated. The prescription in both are elegant reminders that the laws of the Church promulgated by ANY pope remain in force, regardless of what the corrupt clerics of our own age want to pretend.

* Footnote: That when I say, “Cardinals” in the article above, I speak of those who promulgated the press release on April 30, 2025, wherein the claim was made that they were dispensed from the rule on 120. Only about 180 Cardinals of the 250 were present; and of these 180 more or less, 130 were Cardinals who could be Electors. Which means about 60 to 65 Cardinals who were not eligible to vote, did not approve of this statement, in the sense that they were not there to approve of it.

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