Archbishop Viganò and the Question of Pope Francis part II
Some Pontiffs were illegitimately elected or took possession of the Pontificate by fraud, yet they are valid.
As we saw in Part I, Archbishop Viganò’s current position hinges on the belief that Francis’s legitimacy is highly (if not certainly) doubtful, but is that really the case? Not according to the doctrine known as peaceful and universal acceptance, which the renowned Jesuit canonists Fr. Francis X. Wernz (1842-1914) and Fr. Peter Vidal (1867-1938) qualify as “a sign and an infallible effect of a…