by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

We are living in a very peculiar age in the history of the Catholic Church. As readers of FromRome.Info, from February 11, 2013 until December 31, 2022, the Catholic Church was caught up in a program of mass confusion which broke out over the terms of Canon 332 §2, which reads as follows:

Canon 332 § 2. — Si contingat ut Romanus Pontifex muneri suo renuntiet, ad validitatem requiritur ut renuntiatio libere fiat et rite manifestatur, non vero ut a quopiam acceptatur.

Which in English is:

Canon 332 § 2. — If it happen that the Roman Pontiff renounce his munus, for validity there is required that the renunciation be made freely and be manifested duly (rite), but not that it be accepted by anyone at all.

Here “rite” means in accord with due procedure: “rite” being the Latin word for “according to the ritual”.

This controversy was very easy to understand, since you only had to understand that the Law declared a renunciation of the Petrine munus valid, if the pope renounced the munus freely and duly. But the gaslighters of the Masonic Globalist New World Order wanted that you did not see the word “munus”, or if you did that you understood it as “ministerium” or ministry, as their falsified translations at the Vatican attempted to make it appear.  — You can read our collection of articles on this controversy at “The Index to Pope Benedict XVI’s Renunciation“, which is the only collection still in existence after Andrea Cionci’s blog was erased from the internet two days before Pope Francis’ death.  FromRome.Info was the leading publication which covered that debate and was mentioned in other publications the world over.

But now ahead in time, we go backwards in the Code for a new controversy

So it’s kind of amazing, that just two years later the Church is involved in another controversy, and this time about the previous paragraph of the same Canon in the Code of Canon Law of Pope John Paul II, published in 1983, Canon 332 §1. That paragraph reads:

Can. 332 — § 1. Plenam et supremam in Ecclesia potestatem Romanus Pontifex obtinet legitima electione ab ipso acceptata una cum episcopali consecratione. Quare, eandem potestatem obtinet a momento acceptationis electus ad summum pontificatum, qui episcopali charactere insignitus est. Quod si charactere episcopali electus careat, statim ordinetur Episcopus.

Which in English is,

Can. 332 — § 1.The Roman Pontiff obtains full and supreme authority in the Church by legitimate election accepted by him together with episcopal consecration.  Wherefore, the elect, who has been marked out with the episcopal character, obtains the same authority from the moment of his acceptation regarding the the Supreme Pontificate,  Wherefore, if the elect lacks the episcopal character, let him be immediately ordained a Bishop.

For today the controversy is about another single word, “legitima”, in the Latin, which means “legitmate” in English. And the gaslighting supporters of the Masonic Globalist Order have the same arguments: they want you not to see the word, “legitima”, and want you to understand as “universally accepted”, a term which they further constraint to mean, “accepted by us and all the fools we have fooled”.

But if a pope be elected illegitimately, then clearly according to Canon 332 §1, he is not the pope. And a man who claims to be pope without a legitimate election is an antipope.

This is why when the Cardinals decided to allow 133 Electors to vote, contrary to the law, and elected a man who previously had deviated from the Catholic Faith, they violated two laws (John Paul II’s Law and Pope Paul IV’s law) and thus made the election of Prevost invalid, null, irritus and juridically illegitimate.

Also, it is important to note that Pope John Paul II recognizes that what is important is that the election be juridically valid. Because in Canon 332 §1, he did not use the term “legally” (legale) which would refer only to his law for papal elections, Universi Dominic Gregis, but “legitimate”, a term which comprises all the existing laws, rights, canons which pertain to the election of a Roman Pontiff. Indeed, we know this is the correct reading of that Canon because in his papal law, which I just named, in paragraph n. 4, he explicitly states that during a sedevacante, ALL ecclesiastical laws regarding the election of a Roman Pontiff remain in force and NONE can be done away with by any means whatsoever.

Being a faithful Catholic requires that we accept the laws of the Church and defend them against anyone of any dignity who should attempt to violate them. These last 12 years have been a momentous moment in the life of the Church to out who are faithful and who are unfaithful.

Let us not fail to rise to the occasion and remain faithful!

Finally, we should keep in mind how serious all of this is, for to adhere to a man as the Pope, who was not legitimately elected, one is actively and FORMALLY participating in a usurpation and act of schism. And when this involves a claimant to the papacy who is a manifest heretic, it also involves treachery to Christ Jesus as Supreme Teacher. These are both damnable sins, that is, if you commit them there is absolutely no way to be forgiven in this life or the next, if you die in them without repentance.