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A few months ago the St. Paul Center launched Emmaus Academy, an interactive Catholic education resource produced by Scott Hahn and other top scholars. 
Our own contributing editor, theologian Dr. Mike Sirilla, taught his first course here on the Magisterium. In it he unpacks the principles contained in that fundamental article at OnePeterFive “The Morality of Correcting the Pope.” He draws from the Holy Scripture, modern scholarship, and multiple Magisterial texts to address the various distinctions necessary to achieve a balance between an excessive hyperpapalism and a rebellious, impious attitude toward Church authority.
One of the most insightful parts comes when Dr. Sirilla unpacks the third point of the professio fidei, showing how the translation of “religious submission of mind and will” is not a good one, and a broader definition is called for regarding non-definitive acts of the Magisterium.
I encourage readers to join the Emmaus Academy to benefit from Sirilla and other good scholarship at the St. Paul Center. I’m grateful this resource has come into use to benefit the faithful for successive generations.
Timothy Flanders is the editor-in-chief of OnePeterFive. He is the author of City of God versus City of Man: The Battles of the Church from Antiquity to the Present and Introduction to the Holy Bible for Traditional Catholics. His writings have appeared at OnePeterFive and Crisis, as well as in Catholic Family News. In 2019 he founded The Meaning of Catholic, a lay apostolate dedicated to uniting Catholics against the enemies of Holy Church. He holds a degree in classical languages from Grand Valley State University and has done graduate work with the Catholic University of Ukraine. He lives in Michigan with his wife and six children.