For if it be pronounced it
will be unjustly, and without due cause."
"Nay, Paolo, my brother; it is written in the nineteenth maxim of the
'Dictatus Papae' 'That none may judge the Pope.'"
"My brother, who gave thee thy conscience and thine intellect?" Fra
Paolo questioned sternly. "And hath He who gave them thee so taught thee
to yield them that it should be as if thou had'st not these gifts which,
verily, distinguish man from the animals--to whom instinct sufficeth?
Yet, if thou would'st have answer from one of our own casuists in whom
thou dost place thy trust, the Cardinal Bellarmino, in his second book
on the Roman Pontiffs, will teach thee that without prejudice to this
maxim of Gregory thou mayest refuse obedience to a command extending
beyond the jurisdiction of him who commands; as Gaetano in his first
treatise on the 'Power of the Pope,' will also tell thee. For the peace
of thine own mind, my brother, I would I might make thee understand!"
"Nay," answered Fra Francesco, not less earnestly.
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