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The Appeal from the Pope to the Pope: Father de Nantes’ “Great Affair”

The prestigious Pantheon-Sorbonne University organised on March 30 and 31, 2017, a colloquium devoted to “The deposition of a Pope – loci theologiae, canonical models and constitutional issues.” With exceptional intellectual honesty, our Father was presented in it as the only theologian who had succeeded in defining and implementing a modern canonical procedure for the case of a Pope who would have deviated from the doctrine of the Catholic Faith.

The saint whom God has given to us

With all the assurance of my Catholic Faith, the profession of which is confirmed today by Pope Francis’ daily teaching, I affirm without trembling that the canonisation of John Paul II marks the apotheosis of the apostasy prophesised by St. Pius X and denounced fifty years later by the late Fr. de Nantes. The remedy for this idolatry, however, is the accession of the “ saint whom God has given to us ”, a new St. Francis who is true to his model in every respect.