“As to these Supreme Pontiffs who take the place of Christ,” he wrote in the Colloquies, “were wisdom to descend upon them, how it would inconvenience them!… It would lose them all that wealth and honor, all those possessions, triumphal progresses, offices, dispensations, tributes and indulgences.… ” It would require prayers, vigils, studies, sermons “and a thousand troublesome tasks of that sort.”
