During a lengthy radio interview aired Sept. 1, Pope Francis denied reporters’ rumors of a presumed retirement, saying the idea of resigning “didn’t even cross my mind” after his surgery in July. “I don’t know where they got it from … that I was going to resign,” said the pope, who also listed a slate of trips he is planning for the rest of the year. So while that brief summer saga got put to bed, there’s much that is still keeping canonists up at night: the many lingering doctrinal, juridical and theological questions concerning a pope’s resignation as well as what to do when the Apostolic See is impeded — due to a severely disabling illness or other conditions.
Where Peter is: Canonists tackle regulating papal resignation, impeded See – The Catholic Sun
Where Peter is: Canonists tackle regulating papal resignation, impeded See – The Catholic Sun
