by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

If anything is certain since Feb. 11, 2013, it’s that at the Vatican those who are in power don’t know how to say or do anything aright in Latin and in accord with ecclesiastical law. I know this because I found 40+ errors in the Latin of Pope Benedict XVI’s Declaration, which he read aloud on that day, and at least 6 canonical errors in the text that cause it to have no juridical effect whatsoever.

Most recently, the Conclave of May, 2025, had no valid juridical result, also, because the Cardinals seemingly read the erroneous Italian translation of Universi Dominici Gregis, n. 33, rather than the Latin.

So, since THE juridical problem at the Vatican now requires that Robert Cardinal Francis Riggitano Prevost-Martinez has to abdicate his fake claim to the Papacy, I do not have confidence that anyone in the Vatican could prepare a valid Latin text for him to read, to effect that.

So, without further ado, I will propose a text which is juridically valid, if he reads it out loud in the presence of the College of Cardinals, and preferably before cameras to provide an incontrovertible testimony to the same.

Ego, Robertus Franciscus Prevost, hucusque mihi “Leo XIV” nominando, muneri Romani Ponteficis renuntio plene et integre, ex cognoscentia honesta quod electio mei invalida fuit per praecepti transgressionem Cardinalium electorum numeri maximi, in numero triginta tres Constitutionis Apostolicae, Universi Dominici Gregis, quod praeceptum in vigore remanet semper, sine omni dispensationis possibilitate, dum Sedes Apostolica vacet secundum numerum quartum illius Constitutionis.

My Translation:

I, Robert Francis Prevost, heretofore naming myself, “Leo XIV”, fully and entirely renounce the munus of the Roman Pontiff, on account of an honest recognition that my election was invalid, on account of the transgression of the precept regarding the maximum number of Cardinal electors, in n. 33 of the Apostolic Constitution, Universi Dominici Gregis, which precept remains in force at all times while the Apostolic See is vacant, according to n. 4 of the same Constitution, without any possibility of dispensation.

It’s without a doubt cheeky of me to suggest such a text, but while I have the freedom to be such, at FromRome.Info, I will do so for the sake of my readers.