Approval or disapproval by the Cardinals and Bishops is not required on any announcement by a sitting Pope. However, even the Papacy is a political office, and while the College of Cardinals is an almost glacially slow deliberative body, they still move.
Usually they wait until death overtakes the sitting Pope. There have been instances when the course of events is hastened a little, but of course, nobody speaks of the circumstances.
This is not the End Times, or at least, not quite yet.
But were I a gun manufacturer, I would not be in fear for my soul. It is a very moral and just thing to provide means for personal defense.
That not all men or women choose to use it for those purposes, falls not upon the manufacturer, but on the person who practices free will to defy convention and authority, and use the instrument badly. That is the soul that shall have to face the Thereafter.
Thank you for educating me on some of these particulars.
It seems to me that their duty is to Christ, and not some Pope teaching heresies. I guess we’ll see if they come out and oppose this creep!
And if you are a gun dealer who is selling weapons to ISIS and Al-Qaeda?