Video with handy timestamps: The Catholic Esquire takes down “FiDP” Matt Gaspers and Kennedy Hall in 14 minutes

It’s just 14 minutes, and such noble simplicity, if you will. Our good friend “The Catholic Esquire” offers devastating counterpoints all along the way. Timestamps below if you want to cheat, but you can easily listen at 1.25x.

0:20 Basic explanation of why Benedict’s resignation was invalid
1:20 Gaspers’ argument for validity
1:50 Why Gaspers’ argument is Begging the Question logical fallacy
2:53 “Remaining in a passive way”
3:25 The false claim that Munus and Ministerium mean exactly the same thing
4:00 In canon law, Munus is ALWAYS distinct from Ministerium
5:30 Numerous examples from canon law
6:45 Gaspers claims calling a conclave proves the resignation was valid !?!?
8:15 In fact, Benedict calling for a conclave is another sign of Substantial Error
8:30 Benedict wanted the passive role in an Expanded Petrine Ministry; the conclave was to elect the active role, for the governance of the Church (of course this is all invalid)
8:45 Gaspers points to Benedict calling Bergoglio “Pope Francis” … but Benedict also claims the papacy “enters into your very being”… the always is also forever.
10:00 Why Universal Peaceful Acceptance does not apply
12:00 Restating the base premise
13:00 WHY IS TRAD INC SO UNINTERESTED IN SOLVING THIS ???
14:00 CATHOLICS HAVE A GRAVE DUTY TO FIND THE TRUTH AND PROMOTE IT

By the way, today (Feb 27) is the 11th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s last General Audience, where he said this:

“The “always” is also a “for-ever” – there can no longer be a return to the private sphere. My decision to resign the active exercise of the ministry does not revoke this. I do not return to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences, and so on. I am not abandoning the cross, but remaining in a new way at the side of the crucified Lord. I no longer bear the power of office for the governance of the Church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, in the enclosure of Saint Peter. Saint Benedict, whose name I bear as Pope, will be a great example for me in this. He showed us the way for a life which, whether active or passive, is completely given over to the work of God.”