SEDEVACANTISM:

The only honest response to a painful reality.

Tacit Resignation

It is a fair question, it seems to me, to ask: “Who is authorized to speak in the name of the Roman Catholic Church?”

The obvious answer to this question should be: Valid and legitimate members of the hierarchy are the only ones appointed by God to represent the Roman Catholic Church which is identified with the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.

However, heretics and schismatics are not legitimate teachers in the Church of God. Whatever position they may have had prior to their falling into heresy and schism from the true Church has been lost.

It was lost through the only practical procedure of tacit resignation.

That the Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, found it necessary to include such a canon in Her laws should speak for itself.

Laws are made for the good of the community. Constitutions of governments, such as that of the United States, contain rules to protect the State from “foreign and domestic enemies.”

Obviously, such provisions are the result of past experience or observation. A “domestic enemy,” presumably would be those in authority who violate their duty to uphold the laws of the State and provide for the general welfare of the people.

Equally so, the Roman Catholic Church, being a perfect society, must nevertheless consider the unhappy possibility that unscrupulous individuals may well reach the highest position in the Catholic Church with the purpose of destroying the Church from within.

The law reads: “There are certain causes which effect the tacit resignation of an office, which resignation is accepted in advance by operation of law, and hence is effective without any declaration.” (c.188).

One such cause is if the individual holding an office has publicly fallen away from the Catholic Faith.

It is not difficult to understand that such individuals would not be willing to step down from that office. Their purpose would be to use that position in order to destroy the faith of the people, not to defend it.

Now, this has been adequately proven in the cases of those “Popes” since Pope Pius XII.

We, sadly but with our duty before God, must declare such individuals as anti-Popes.

This means that even though they occupy the Chair of Peter – which is the highest position in the visible Church – they are not true and real Popes. They are imposters.

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