“Just as it is lawful to resist the pope that attacks the body, it is also lawful to resist the one who attacks souls or who disturbs civil order, or, above all, who attempts to destroy the Church. I say that it is lawful to resist him by not doing what he orders and preventing his will from being executed. But it is not lawful to judge him, punish him, or dismiss him, since these are acts proper to a superior.”
Saint Robert Belarmino. De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 29 ,Opera omnia.
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