Bellarmine...is discussing the course of action which may legitimately be taken against a pope who upsets the political order or "kills souls by his bad example.
I am glad you posted this because isn't the pope's actions of kissing the Qur'an holding interreligious dialogues without any purpose of converting the other side "killing souls by his bad example"?
Doesn't this give the uneducated Catholic the impression there is no difference between one religion and another even if the pope's exhortations, read by the few, include warnings against religious indifferentism?
You mean the Vicar of Sts. Peter and Paul. LOL.
I'm not going to waste my time any longer. You will continue to do what you have been doing no matter what I post.
In general,the soul has the properties of will and intellect (and, some add, memory) The problem soi disant trads have in their opposition to the Church Jesus established and its Divinely-Constituted authority is, not usually, located in the intellect. They have been, repeatedly, informed as to the facts. The locus of the problem is in the will and only the Holy Spirt can redirect that to its proper ends. And,it is also true that Fee Will being what it is, there is the real possibility one's will may never be redirected as the first condition for that, potential,redirection is humility.