IN THE THEORETICAL REALM, LET’S PRETEND THAT THE EMERITUS POPE DECIDED TO PUT AN END TO ALL OF THIS; WHAT WOULD HE DO AND WHAT WOULD IT DO TO THE CHURCH?

 Of course, we do have the God of surprises who seems to have kept the emeritus pope around for all of the current papacy making abundantly clear the two forms of the one papacy and the disconnect between the two…