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Pope-emeritus Benedict rejected doubts about resignation
August 07, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope-emeritus Benedict XIV rejected arguments that his resignation was invalid, in a 2014 letter to Msgr. Nicholas Bux, who had worked with the former Pontiff at the then-Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“To say that in my resignation I would have left ‘only the exercise of the ministry and not also the munus’ is contrary to clear dogmatic-canonical doctrine. If some journalists speak of a ‘creeping schism’, they do not deserve any attention,” the former Pope wrote.
The full text of the letter will be published in a forthcoming book by Msgr. Bux.
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