What Should We Do With an Evil Pope?
That there have been evil Popes in the past is without question Take the case of Pope John XII, who was certainly no role model for a Pope! Saint John Chrysostom tells us not to judge pastors, unless they are heretics. Fr. Woywod in an article in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, states: If the Superior's orders become unusually difficult or practically impossible because of particular circumstances, the subjects have the right to explain respectfully to the Superior why they believe that they cannot execute the orders and request that they be suspended or modified. However, if the Superior insists that the command be complied with, the subject must make a sincere effort to do what is prescribed. There is no doubt that God blesses an obedient man with most marvelous success, as the history of the Catholic Church attests in innumerable cases. The Holy Bible puts obedience above all other religious acts of worship of God. Writers on the spiritual life point out that obedience is the greatest and most acceptable gift that a human creature can give to Almighty God, inasmuch as he sacrifices to God what is most precious to human nature, one's freedom and one's desire to act according to one's own will. Since God can never be outdone in generosity, He rewards the generous sacrifices of man with most bountiful blessings often bordering on the miraculous. (Disobedience to Orders of the Roman Pontiff or One's Proper Ordinary, and Conspiracy against Their Authority Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Volume 37 number 11)The Church has no power to change the form of her government, nor to control the destiny of him who, once validly elected, is no vicar of hers but Vicar of Christ. Consequently she has no power to punish or depose her head. She is born to obey. This truth may seem hard, but the best theologians have never attenuated it; rather, they have accentuated it. To make us aware of all that we ought to be ready to suffer for the Church, of how much heroism she can ask of us, they have proposed extreme cases. They have supposed a Pope who shall scandalise the Church by the gravest sins; they have supposed him to be incorrigible; and then they ask whether the Church can depose him. Their answer is, no. For no one on earth can touch the Pope. -The Church of the Word Incarnate by Monsignor Charles Journet (Professor at the Major Seminary of Fribourg) Volume One: The Apostolic Hierarchy Sheed and Ward London and New York 1955) 
Michael Fighting
