POPE FRANCIS - A HERETIC? ON THE PUNISHMENT OF HERETICS AND ESPECIALLY OF THE POPE WHO HAS BECOME A HERETIC WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Dial. 6 CHP. XXXIV

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Our Lady's Altar In St. Mary Major, Rome 

Chapter 34

Student: I conclude from the aforesaid that according to these theorists in order that one be permitted to appeal from a heretic pope it does not matter whether the pope definitively proclaimed the Christian law to be false or proclaimed any heresy whatever which contradicts orthodox belief, even if many were to hold that this assertion of the pope did not contradict the catholic faith.

Master: What you say is true, since these theorists indubitably hold that every heresy must be opposed by any catholic who knows that it is contrary to catholic truth, no matter how strongly this heresy is considered catholic by [other] Christians, even by those among them who are learned and skilled interpreters of Holy Writ. Therefore it is permitted to every catholic to appeal from a pope definitively proclaiming any heresy whatsoever as obligatory dogma.

Student: What if the pope does not proclaim definitively that some heresy must be held, but publicly teaches and preaches this. Would it be permitted to appeal from him.

Master: The answer is that one would be permitted to appeal. But one is required to note carefully the time and the quality of this permitted appeal. For either the pope teaches, preaches, indoctrinates or asserts a heresy which is contrary to catholic truth which he is bound to believe explicitly, and in that case one is permitted to appeal immediately not only from the unjust doctrine, but also from him who teaches it as being a heretic, because such a pope is immediately to be considered a heretic without a major inquiry. If indeed the pope were to assert that there are not three distinct persons in God, then because he is bound to believe explicitly that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit are distinct persons, the pope must instantly be thought a heretic. [see OP III, Epistola 14.21] Or else the pope preaches and indoctrinates a heresy that is contrary to a truth that he is not bound to believe explicitly (for instance, if he were to preach that David was not the son of Jesse, or that Jeroboam was not the king of Israel), and in that case one must not immediately appeal from the pope. But if a scandal develops concerning this assertion, one must ascertain by minute investigation whether the pope is ready to be corrected by revoking this assertion. Indeed if he is not ready to be corrected, then it is permitted to appeal, namely by opposing the heretical doctrine, and its heretical teacher if he is discovered to be pertinacious in his opinion.

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