My comments were related to pastoral realities: when people ...

Fr. Josh Miller

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My comments were related to pastoral realities: when people ask for our blessing, we don't tend to go into the weeds. If someone were to get into the weeds, though, it'd set up a crisis of conscience.

Your comments on popes is why I am not an ultramontanist, and Pope Francis (God rest him) helped put the brakes on the tendency we'd had over the previous few decades of elevating everything a pope says and does to the level of Gospel.

That said, we cannot limit their authority. It is supreme and universal. Interesting to consider at what point they cease being popes: the minute they advocate heresy, the saints say.

At the same time, there is no individual with authority above them (save for God) to make this determination. And that's the real problem here.

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