Luke Blankenberg

@JadeAtrophis Treating Twitter (or anywhere on the internet) as a diary for your unexamined musings and reactions is a very bad idea and she's exhibit #1

Dear Dr Taylor Marshall @TaylorRMarshall, I humbly asked you: What's the most important reason why you're not sedevacantist, that is, a Roman Catholic fully detached from the Conciliar-Synodal Church headed by Leo XIV? And you kindly responded: Because the Roman Apostolic See cannot cease to exist. Even in a sede vacante, the Roman Apostolic See continues to exist and function and is the center of unity for the bishops. x.com/i/status/20419… My Reaction I have observed your posts for a while. You definitely have a deep appreciation of the Catholic Faith. You definitely see the loss of faith on a global scale, the continued fostering of this misfortune by those who should be the shepherds of the Church, defending her against all errors and heresies. By the virtue faith you possess, you recognise the errors and heresies and reject them. I appreciate the difficulty of sedevacantism you candidly expressed. It is Catholic dogma that the Apostolic See is perpetual. It cannot cease to exist. Yet, if sedevacantists are correct that the Apostolic See has been vacant for almost seven devades now, how has the papacy not ceased? This is really a very serious objection, one that keeps many intelligent and pious SSPX clergy in their position. Yet, it has an almost unbelievably straightforward resolution which, if you understand clearly, will fill you with so much joy and remove all the contradictions and inconsistencies your fine intellect has been forced to sustain for love of the Church. Let's start. 1. The longest interregnum before now lasted 33 months (what a number). Sedevacantists argue there has been an interregnum for at least 755 months now. Please kindly note that if God could permit a 33-month interregnum, he could also permit 755 months and more. There is nothing in divine or ecclesiastical law that limits the possible length of a papal interregnum. 2. Yet, even though an unusually long papal interregnum is not incompatible with divine or ecclesiastical law, not incompatible with the visibility and indefectibility of the Church, nevertheless, the papacy must morally continue throughout the interregnum, it cannot be said to have been extinguished, to cease to exist. 3. Yes. But how does the papacy continue during a papal interregnum, how is the Church not altered in her divine constitution whenever she is without her visible head? The answer is straightforward: so long as the legitimate means of designating a successor to the papacy remain in the Church, the power of the Church exercised by the Pope does not die (or cease to exist) anytime the Pope dies. St. Antoninus of Florence in his Summa Sacrae Theologiae (Part III, tit. XXI, n.3) confirms this, following Augustine Trionfo of Ancona: Whether, when the Pope is dead, his power remains in the College of Cardinals? Such power remains in the Church and in the College of Cardinals as regards that which is material in the papacy. Because when the Pope is dead, the College can, through election, determine the person for the papacy, that it be this man or that man. Hence, just as the root produces the tree, through which it produces flowers and fruit, so the College makes the Pope, who possesses jurisdiction and its administration in the Church. Therefore, the power of the Church does not die when the Pope dies as regards jurisdiction—which is, as it were, the formal element in the papacy—but remains in Christ. Nor does the power of the Church die when the Pope dies as regards the election and determination of the person—which is, as it were, something material—but remains in the College of Cardinals. Part 2 continued in comments.

@masochistmartyr @AlcoholFien So you are midwits and there are more men who are higher IQ than you. Got it.

@TheOGM3nace An auxiliary bishop from another diocese got sent to a nearby diocese when the bishop retired This happens all the time, because it's the easiest move to make since it doesn't require going through the process of having to select a new bishop from amongst priests