text: I'm always a little surprised by how many putatively "conservative" Catholics don't have the slightest idea what the church teaches about the supremacy of conscience. I see it so often that I probably shouldn't be surprised by it. I think it probably has something to do with the phenomenon of "creeping" (and creepy) infallibility that infected the church during the authoritarian papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.  At any rate, you truly don't know what you're talking about, and you don't know that you don't know.  A good place to start, I suppose, would be with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Article 6, especially at #1790.
  No one can cede responsibility for her or his moral decisions to anyone or anything else.
  <this pope has mislead many people and he will pay the ultimate price unless he repents and tries to repair the damage while he still can.>
  Drivel: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing other than pure drivel.