Over the summer, The WM Review has been publishing a number of texts from Fr. Domenico Palmieri relevant to the “recognize and resist” movement. These touched on the following issues:

1. The distinction between the Holy See and the man Seated upon it
2. Fr Palmieri’s claim that ‘they miserably deceive themselves who think they can adhere to the Roman See while resisting the Pontiff’
3. Whether a Pope can fall into heresy, and whether he is ‘stripped of jurisdiction by God’
4. The proper response to the exercise of the Pope’s non-infallible magisterium
5. What Fr Palmieri actually said about resisting the Pope
6. When the Pope is actually teaching ex cathedra

Prompted by the fourth part above, a reader sent the following question:

Can I just politely ignore what the Pope says, especially since recent Popes have the irritating habit of pronouncing grand opinions about everything under the sun? Becoming the Pope is not a sort of magical transformation of one’s basic personality. One does not suddenly acquire a monopoly on all wisdom, human or divine.

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Originally published in Integrity Magazine. Read original article

Original Tags: Church History, Ecclesiology, Papacy, Recognize and Resist, Sedevacantism, Theology