Cardinal Gerhard Müller has stated that a pope who teaches heresy would automatically lose his office.
“To teach contrary to the apostolic faith would automatically deprive the pope of his office,” he wrote in an opinion piece published on Friday in the religious journal First Things. “We must all pray and work courageously to spare the Church such an ordeal.”
“The pope is the perennial principle and foundation of the unity of the Church,” he said. “But the Church is not centralized in him, as if he were the supreme leader of a totalitarian party.” Read more…