Pope, No Longer Pope: Papal Renunciation in History and in Canon Law

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machine translation of: Papa, non più papa: La rinuncia pontificia nella storia e nel diritto canonico

Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken of renouncing the papacy as something that could happen again in the future (not necessarily in “his” future), to the point of becoming commonplace. Now, almost ten years after Benedict XVI's gesture, authoritative historians, jurists, and observers are discussing a very delicate issue that continues to attract the attention of the whole world, especially because it is still not subject to any legal regulation. An examination of historical precedents and the canon law developed before and after Celestine V provides food for thought that could also serve as a proposal to be presented to those in the Church who will have to decide and legislate on the matter