In the last days of April, 2025, the entire College of Cardinals, gathered together in general meetings, in preparation for the Conclave of May of that year, perpetrated a total fraud upon the law and the whole body of the Faithful of the Catholic Church, by claiming to have a dispensation from the rule of Pope John Paul II, promulgated in his Apostolic Constitution, Universi Dominici Gregis of 1996, for Papal Elections, which limited the maximum number of Cardinals voting in any session to 120.

This fraud which invalidated the Conclave was first denounced publicly on the pages of FromRome.info, in the article, “A Canonical Analysis why the Conclave had no valid result”, on June 25 of that year: a denunciation sent to every Priest, Bishop and Cardinal of the Church at Rome, who had a public email address, though the website ChiesaRomana.Info.

After 13 months, NO scholar, canonist or writer in the Church has refuted that analysis with legal arguments. And the reason for this is that scholars of jurisprudence understand well that the claim of such a dispensation is a complete dishonest lie and mendacity.

This can be shown from the handbook on ecclesiastical jurisprudence published by Padre Lucio Ferraris, in 1858 A. D., in his section on “Dispensatio”, where he lays out the fundamental principals of what a dispensation is on pp. 183 and 184 of that celebrated reference:

Which in  English would be, according to Br. Bugnolo:

(1. A dispensastion is a common relaxation of a law (juris) made with cognition of a cause by him who has the right (ius) to dispense.  It is in this common, with the Gloss in c. Requiritis 5. caus. 1. q. 7, at the words, “Ut plerisque”, and in the ch. “Ut constitueretur”, 5, dist. 50, at the words, “Detrahentium”; Abbas in the ch. “Fraternitatis”, on Schisms. Fagnan. in the ch. “Nimis”, 18, on the sons of Priests, n. 4. Angel. Tab. and Armill. at the word, “Dispensatio”.
(2. A dispensation can be considered under various measures.  First, a dispensation is something owed, or something permitted, or something prohibited.
(3. A dispensation …

Continuing in English …

… is something owed, where either utility, and/or necessity of the Church, and/or the prerogative of merits occurs, as is gathered from the cited ch. Ut Constitueretur 25, dist. 50, and ch. Exposuistis 23, on Prebends.  A permitted dispensation, which is also named an arbitrary (dispensation), is, where in the law (in iure) there is a prohibition, the moderation of which is left to the judgement of the superior, as is had in the ch. Si quis presbyter, dist. 50, and/or even, when something is permitted, so that the worse be avoided; c. 2, on spouses.  A dispensation is prohibited where it can scarcely be done without a manifest dissipation of the law (iuris).

How the Cardinals lied to the world

First, the Cardinals manifestly lied to the world, when they claimed to have a dispensation from Pope Francis, since they produced NO document or testimony of persons, as to the grant of a dispensation at any given time or place, nor in regard to any specific rule of the Papal Law on elections.

But they were manifestly dishonest, since in n. 4 of that law, the use of all dispensations is expressly declared illicit (legally prohibited)and such use is expressly declared null and void, with these words (English translation by Br. Bugnolo):

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.

See the Canonical Analysis above for details.

Thus, as can be seen from Padre Lucio Ferraris, just as there is no question of the existence of a dispensation when the law itself forbids it, so there is no question the Cardinals could use their fake dispensation during a Conclave, since the use of all dispensation is prohibited.

Thus, the Cardinals suffer the penalties of Excommunication and Suspension a divinis

And Pope John Paul II expressly invokes his Supreme Authority to declare this. Thus, no Cardinal, not even all the Cardinals, even if they had a written dispensation from Pope Francis, could use such a dispensation, so long as the law of John Paul II remains un-amended, as it does.

This means that the Cardinals by faking a valid conclave have entered into objective formal schism from Christ Jesus and are ipso facto excommunicated latae sententiae, by canon 1364, that is, without the need for anyone to declare it. They are also suspended a divinis from all ecclesiastical functions in virtue of the censure in canon 1331. That means that all their masses are illegal and a mortal for them to perform. It also means that it would be a moral sin for Catholics to attend religious services with these men or recognize any legal act by them as valid.

This crime and sin of the Cardinals, therefore, has made them in law and in the sight of God, nothing more than a criminal organized mafia. And the Faithful should conform themselves to God and consider the Cardinals just this, and nothing more.

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