The Pope Cannot Depose Bishops Without Grave Cause
By the very nature of the bishop’s office he cannot be removed unjustly because he is free to use his native jurisdictional power to oppose an arbitrary and openly tyrannical act of the pope.
By the very nature of the bishop’s office he cannot be removed unjustly because he is free to use his native jurisdictional power to oppose an arbitrary and openly tyrannical act of the pope.
It is the most extensive and deep program of subversion of the Catholic Church ever written.
The pope as legislator may change the canons, but always within the limits of natural and divine law.