[A disputaion whether the pope is subject to graternal correction and the universal council]

Concerning these texts, If thy brother shall offend against thee [Matt. 18:15] and Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven [Matt. 16:19], the question is asked whether there is any one of the brethren who is not to be corrected in this way. For the affirmative it is asserted that the same argument applies to any brother; therefore, if any one is to be corrected, all should be. You can argue for the negative that we are to understand by the term “church” “the church's prelate”; but there is one prelate of the Church who does not have a superior, namely the Roman pontiff; therefore, if he should sin, we cannot denounce his sin to the Church. The question at issue here is whether the supreme pontiff is over the universal council or the universal Church, which is represented by the council.

On this question there are opposing ways of speaking, one of which holds that the pope is above the universal council. This view has been and is held by some of the cardinals and by the Thomists generally; and in Rome (it is said) no one is allowed publicly to maintain the contrary.