I'm not a Catholic but isn't the pope supposed to be Gods Representative on Earth? Isn't Papal Supremacy and Papal Infallibility still a thing? Maybe it's my quasi-protestant upbringing but I was led to believe Catholics received their marching orders from the Pope in Rome. I thought the hierarchical church was Catholicisms whole deal, and what he says goes
Maybe the pope needs to go back to excommunicating these heretics