text: That is like claiming that the power of the SCOTUS os self declared.  It is also like claiming that the SCOTUS believes judges like the guy from Arkansas who told the state judges to ignore their decision on gay marriage are seen as dangerous and need to be silenced.  
  
  Funny thing is--the pope does not go around condemning Protestant theologians who hold similar views to dissident Catholic theologians.  What that means it that the pope does not condemn theologians based on fear.  They are condemned for not adhering to the Catholic Faith.
  
  The difference between a dissident Catholic and a Protestant is that the Protestant has integrity.  If a person wants to be a Catholic theologian, then they need to teach the Catholic Faith--not their own agenda or personal whims.  If a Catholic theologian wants to teach things that aren't Catholic, yet are religious and have to do with God in some way--let them go teach at a Protestant university.  Then the pope won't care what they teach.