DEBATE: Is Benedict Still Pope?

DEBATE: Is Benedict Still Pope?Today is the nine year anniversary Pope Benedict announced his resignation to the world (February 11th, 2013). Today's debate answers the question: was Benedict's resignation valid; and of not, IS BENEDICT STILL POPE?Todays debaters are: Dr. Ed Mazza is former Full Professor of History at Azusa Pacific University and host of “The Bar of History” at VirginMostPowerfulRadio.org. Mazza is the author of The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance from Angelico Press. His online classes in Church and World History are available at edmundmazza.comSteven O’Reilly is a graduate of the University of Dallas and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He writes for the blog RomaLocutaEst, He has had articles appear in the old Catholic Answers magazine, "THIS ROCK," One Peter Five, and LIFESITENEWs.  He is working on a historical fiction trilogy entitled PIA FIDELIS set in the time of the Arian Crisis, and the rise Julian the Apostate.  Book I, "PIA FIDELIS: The Two Kingdoms", is available for order on Amazon and other sites.  He is a former intelligence officer, who served in the Clandestine Services of the CIA. 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