Sedevacantism – the Chair of Peter is Empty There have been 260 valid popes in Church history and more than 40 antipopes. There have been more than 200 papal vacancies (periods without a pope). The facts available on this website (mostholyfamilymonastery/) prove that the last six men who have claimed be popes have been and are antipopes. The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope: link to PDF: (mostholyfamilymonastery/6_noheretic_pope.pdf) St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30: A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction. St. Francis De Sales (17th century), Doctor of the Church, The Catholic Controversy, pp. 305-306 : Now when he [the Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church... St. Antoninus (1459): In the case in which the pope would become a heretic, he would find himself, by that fact alone and without any other sentence, separated from the Church. A head separated from a body cannot, as long as it remains separated, be head of the same body from which it was cut off. A pope who would be separated from the Church by heresy, therefore, would by that very fact itself cease to be head of the Church. He could not be a heretic and remain pope, because, since he is outside of the Church, he cannot possess the keys of the Church. (Summa Theologica, cited in Actes de Vatican I. V. Frond pub.)
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