Or How the Catholic Cardinals can definitely prevent a Bergoglian from being elected as the next Pope, no matter what.

Editorial by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

With the serious decline in health of Pope Francis, there have begun to be published numerous articles regarding his resignation, death, and what kind of man the Church needs to be elected as the next Pope. Noteworthy Catholics, laymen and clerics, are also beginning to express their doubts that the College of Cardinals is going to elect someone to correct the many heresies, apostasies, idolatries, blasphemies, errors and the promotion of perversity pushed and promoted by Pope Francis.

In all of these discussions, the presumption is that the College of Cardinals will elect the next Pope. However, those who are expert in jurisprudence and all who spend the time to read the Papal Law on Conclaves, and how the election must proceed, know that it is quite possible this will not be the case, if there are two voting blocs of intransigent parties in the College of Cardinals.

And this is because of the rules laid down by Pope John Paul II, in the papal law for papal elections: Universi Dominici Gregis, the English translation of which is linked above in the image above. Note however, that the English translation is not the authoritative version. Only the Latin original is.

In that papal law, to be elected, one has to receive the absolute majority of votes from the Cardinal voters who are present for the Conclave (UDG, Chapter V, n. 62). This means, 2/3rds of the votes, and if the number of Cardinals is not divisible by three into a whole integer, 2/3 +1 extra vote.

So in the case that there are two blocs, neither of which will consent to the election of any candidate proposed by the other, and if each of these blocs contain at least 1/3 of all the Cardinal Electors, plus one, then even just one of these blocs can prevent a valid election of the Roman Pontiff by the College of Cardinals, indefinitely.

In such a case, there would remain only one other way for the valid election of a Roman Pontiff: namely an election by Apostolic Right, which would allow the clergy of the Church of Rome (Diocese of Rome and the Suburbican Dioceses) along with the faithful of this Church to elect the next Pope by acclamation, inspiration, compromise or simply majority (50% +1) of those present for such an election.

This might seem a fanciful thought, but since Pope Francis was elected pope in this manner, and since what is at risk for the whole Church is another heresy-promoting man like Pope Francis, it may be the safest course of action for the Catholic bloc if it can muster 46 votes, while not being able to recruit for its candidate at least 92 votes.

I say 46 votes, because presently there are 137 Cardinals who are eligible to vote. IF we presume that all are present for the Election, then 33% of them, plus one is 46 votes.

But for this second modality of election to take place, the Cardinal Electors would have to agree by an absolute majority vote (2/3 +1) to suspend the conclave and concede to the Church of Rome to act by its Apostolic Right.

And if so, they will have to make a public declaration, that on account of the irreconcilable differences among the Cardinal Electors, with no candidate being able to obtain the 92 votes necessary to be elected, that they have resolved to NOT elect the next pope in conclave, but cede their right by the papal law, back to the Church of Rome which has this right by Apostolic Ordinance.

But the advantages of this course of action are many, the chief of which is the salvation of souls and the unity of the Church: because there are vast numbers of Catholics who hold that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was never the true Pope, or is an antipope, or at least was one of these when he appointed a majority of Cardinal Electors. Hence, no matter whom the Cardinal Electors might elect in conclave, all these will hold the election invalid and irregular by reason of the participation of men who were named Cardinal Electors by Pope Francis, while not having the canonical mandate to do so, or at least while a manifest pertinacious heretic in schism from Christ and His Church.

Whereas, the clergy and faithful of the Roman Church, having not professed these heresies, blasphemies, errors, nor participated in Pope Francis’ idolatries and crimes against God and the local Churches and religious institutes, do and will have the moral reputation to elect a Pope acceptable to the whole Church, by reason of the unassailable right to elect the Roman Pontiff, which they exercised for 10 centuries before Nicholas II, in his Bull, In Nomine Domini, created the College of Cardinals, on April 13, 1059 A. D..

That the College of Cardinals can take such action is clear from the Code of Canon Law, canon 332 §1, which requires a legitimate election, not an election by the College, and canon 349, which merely states that the College is competent to elect the pope, not that they alone can, while making it clear that they can only elect the Pope if they do so in accord with the papal laws on these matters. This enshrines the historical fact that the College has a ministerial duty, which when impossible to fulfill can be fulled by the electorate which holds this right, not by custom, papal law, or even canon law, but by Apostolic Tradition: the entire Church at Rome.

As for the rumors that Pope Francis might change the Papal Law to allow in the first balloting or in subsequent ballotings after a dead-lock, an election by a simple majority, I think this is highly unlikely, because Pope Francis is a clever politicking manipulator, and he knows that while it is possible the Catholic faction obtain a 50% +1 majority, it is definitely impossible that they obtain a 66%+1 majority. And his purpose in destroying the Church will be served, but not so well, but a compromise candidate.

Thus, if the Catholic Faction stand united and strong, they can prevent a manifest heretic or Bergoglian from ever being elected, by following the stratagem I have outlined above.

However, if there is any other result, in the next Conclave, than a truly Catholic Pope, it is these Catholic Cardinals who are to blame. And their names should go down in infamy for having ceded to the enemies of Jesus Christ the entire flock of His lambs, for whom He shed His Most Precious Blood and endured so much infamy and shame and suffering.