Editor’s Note: The following text, text issued today by Bishop Athanasius Schneider and first published at LifeSiteNews, addresses some key questions and controversies that have surrounded the papacy and have caused division among faithful Catholics in the midst of the current pontificate and the ongoing crisis in the Church. Most notably, he examines the question of whether a pope can lose his office automatically via heresy, and addresses the thesis that Benedict XVI is still the true pope.
We would like to thank Bishop Schneider for offering, as an apostolic successor, a voice of clarity on these matters, and LifeSiteNews for allowing us to reprint it here for our audience.
For more on these topics, readers can also see Dr. Taylor Marshall’s podcast interview with Bishop Schneider, which was also published today.
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