MarkEscobar1993
June 8, 2026
A Catechism on the Imperfect General Council in the Current Crisis of the Catholic Church.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. The Author’s Goal and Method.
2. The Current Crisis in the Church, and Its Origin.
3. The Cause of the Long Duration of the Crisis, and Its Remedy.
4. Miracle, an Uncertain and Insufficient Remedy.
5. Being Benedict XIII or being Gregory XII, That is the Question.
6. The Natural and Extraordinary Method of Resolving the Crisis: An Imperfect General Council.
7. Imperfect General Council and the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
8. Cases for the formation of an imperfect general council.
9. Correspondence of the cases stated by theologians with the current crisis.
10. Examination of arguments regarding the doubtful legitimacy of popes. Heresy.
11. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the popes’ legitimacy. Membership in a non-Catholic sect.
12. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the popes’ legitimacy. Being elected by doubtful cardinals.
13. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the cardinals’ legitimacy. Heresy.
14. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the cardinals’ legitimacy. Membership in a non-Catholic sect.
15. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the cardinals’ legitimacy. Lack of priesthood.
16. Examination of the arguments regarding the doubtfulness of the cardinals’ legitimacy. Lack of being known and capacity for designation.
17. Examination of the arguments regarding the impossibility of observing the law of papal election. Lack of legitimate cardinals and the principle of epikeia.
18. Existence of several claimants to the papacy.
19. Response to the objection of the Roman clergy.
20. Convocation of an imperfect general council.
21. Members of an imperfect general council.
22. The nature of the acts and actions of the imperfect general council.
23. The supreme authority and binding force of the imperfect general council.
24. Traditional Catholic bishops are not without jurisdiction.
25. Two theories regarding how traditional Catholic bishops possess jurisdiction.
26. Proof of the jurisdiction of traditional Catholic bishops through the Papal Theory.
27. Proof of the jurisdiction of traditional Catholic bishops through the Bolgeni Theory.
28. Further defense of the Bolgeni Theory.
29. The number of bishops present in an imperfect general council.
30. Summing up.
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A Catechism on the Imperfect General Council in the Current Crisis of the Catholic Church