“He governs by the consent of the Catholic people I presume.”
I’m not catholic; but it’s my understanding that the Pope is God’s representative here in earth and thereby rules by the consent of God. I’ll leave it to Catholics to correct me if I’m wrong.
I'm a lapsed Catholic and all I can say is he is God's representative that the College of Cardinals (people) picked to be God's representative. He was not divinely chosen like Moses was. As such he can be "unpicked" by people as well. This Pope has gone against both the Catholic teachings and the Bible. It wouldn't take much to convince the College of Cardinals to make a new rule or exception to current rules to remove him.
Irregular, yes, impossible; no. Then again we haven't seen a Pope so Anti-Catholic before either. This Pope is also extremely leftist/communist/socialist in his thinking and words. Hopefully the Catholic church has learned two lessons during this scandal. Never appoint a communist Pope and purge all known pedophiles from the church with prejudice and do it fast. Give a one-time warning to all the rest of the priests. Don't cover for a pedophile or other wrongdoing priest or suffer from the same fate as they do.
After the purge let the law handle the defrocked disgraced priests. I've known some good priests in my time so I know they exist. I would add one thing; a suggestion to the church. Start allowing priests to have relationships with women and get married. The church forbids sodomy so Gay marriages would be unacceptable but normal marriages would bring the church into the 21st century.