Popes Who Resigned

✍ Scribed by Craughwell, Thomas J.

• Publisher: TAN Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

On February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI shocked Catholics and the world by announcing that he would resign from the papacy. It was the first papal resignation in 600 years, and it has caused Catholics the world over to scramble for answers. Now, in Popes Who Resigned, Thomas J. Craughwell answers those burning questions, including: - Why did Benedict XVI resign… and why didn't John Paul II? - What does the Catholic Church teach about papal resignation? - Who were the other popes that resigned, and why? - And much more. In these tumultuous times, Craughwell points even now to the rock that is the Catholic Church, digging into Canon law and Church history for answers. Popes Who Resigned is a must read for Catholics and non-Catholics alike who are trying to make sense of Benedict XVI's resignation and what it means for the papacy, the Church, and the world.

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Doesn't mention Pope St. Marcelinus, who, according to St. Robert in Papal Error? ,

sacrificed to idols, as is certain from the Pontifical of Damasus, the Council of Sinvessanus, and from the epistle of Nicholas I to the Emperor Michael. But Marcelinus neither taught something against faith, nor was a heretic, or unfaithful, except by an external act on account of the fear of death. Now, whether he fell from the pontificate due to that external act or not, little is related, later he abdicated the pontificate, and shortly thereafter was crowned with martyrdom. Still, I believe that he would not have fallen from the pontificate ipso facto , because it was certain to all that he sacrificed to idols only out of fear.
I've read elsewhere that he was re-elected after resigning. True or False Pope says the same.