Way to completely miss the antecedent, LifeSite.

And the See obviously was NOT vacant in ARSH 2013 when Pope Benedict announced that he was half-quitting only the ministry of the active governance of the Church, while remaining within the enclosure of St. Peter as the praying, suffering Pope.

Abject nonsense, technically called “Substantial Error” in canon law, thus rendering the attempted resignation invalid by the law itself.

So long as this full truth of the situation, all the way down to the foundation, the fact that Pope Benedict never validly resigned, is ignored, nothing will get better.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2024/01/17/way-to-completely-miss-the-antecedent-lifesite-the-very-first-thing-required-for-a-man-to-be-validly-elected-pope-is-that-the-see-be-vacant/