This may seem like an obvious question, but I have to ask: “Is the Pope Catholic?”
A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.
- St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church
He could be a homosexual.
“This may seem like an obvious question, but I have to ask: Is the Pope Catholic?”
Apparently not.