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Editor’s Note: Only here at FromRome.Info will you hear the truth about this topic: namely, that it is contrary to Apostolic Tradition to require a Bishop, ordinary of a Diocese, to retire simply because he reaches a certain age. On the contrary, since the time of the Apostles, Bishops have rule their dioceses until death, with their union to their flocks being compared to Christ the Spouse, Who ministered unto death. — The decision of Paul VI to require resignations at the age of 75 was clearly a tactic to remove opposition to the Aggiornamento. Yet, so contrary was it to Apostolic Tradition, that the canonists who counseled Pope John Paul II, refused to put it into the Code of Canon Law of 1983 in absolute terms, since, there, the canon about this matter (canon 401) only says, that at the age of 75 Bishops are requested to submit a letter of resignation, but does not say they are required.
Let’s take a look at that Canon 401 §1:
Episcopus diocensanus, qui septuagesimum quintum aetatis annum expleverit, rogatur ut renuntiationem ab officio exhibeat Summo Pontifici, qui omnibus inspectis adiunctis providebit.
The English correctly translated, would be:
The Diocesan Bishop, who has completed his 75th year of age, is asked to show his renunciation of office to the Supreme Pontiff, who, having inspected all the circumstances, will make provision.
Here three notable defects in this canon are evident:
- This canon imposes NO obligation, since it is not formulated as a command or requirement and does not use the hortatory subjunctive, but merey a descriptive formulation, “is asked” in the indicative mood.
- This canon does not require a Bishop to resign after he reaches 75 years of age, only that, when he does resign after that age, that he send his written act of renunciation from office to the Supreme Pontiff.
- This canon does not require the Supreme Pontiff to accept the renunciation or to insist that a renunciation be made at any time, even after 75 years of age.
Thus, we can conclude that as written, this canon does not and has never required the resignation of a Bishop who reaches 75 years of age. Nor does it give the Pope authority to ask for it, nor requires that he ask for it.
Thus, the news above, from the antipope Leo XIV, who allegedly has a doctorate in canon law, is completely without juridical basis: as he cannot insist on resignations even if he was the pope, which he is NOT.
In this manner, we have ripped the mask off the intentions of this imposter, who’s agenda is clearly to destroy the Church from within.
As for the readers of FromRome.Info, now is the time to write your local bishop who is 70-75 years of age, and has not yet resigned, and tell him to support the Save Rome Project and come to Rome to urge the election of a Catholic Pope who will restore the observance of Apostolic Tradition and liberate the Papacy from these godless monsters.
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