"Finally,
one cannot consider as schismatics those who refuse to obey the Roman
Pontiff because they would hold his person suspect or, because of
widespread rumors, doubtfully elected (as happened after the election
of Urban VI) or who would resist him as a civil authority and not
as pastor of the Church." --Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum
(Rome: Gregorian, 1937), Vol 7, p. 398
"The Church
will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low,
will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper
until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession
of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this,
she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters."
--St. Nicholas of Flue, in "Catholic
Prophecy", edited by Yves Dupont, p. 30