Where do you stand with Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI?
Scripture is clear about the qualifications for any man who is to be an elder or deacon in the church.
He didn’t meet them.
Besides, what has that got to do with the whole issue?
How is that relevant to Catholics passing judgment on their pope?
I’m not Catholic so I am not required to be in submission to him or any other pope. Catholics are.
Non-Catholics get taken to task regularly for their own personal interpretation of Scripture and for judging Catholics. So that leaves one to wonder on what basis Catholics feel themselves to be permitted to pass judgment on the pope of their church to whom they are required to be in submission.
They must have an interpretation of Scripture by which to measure him, and then they must have to pass judgment on him as to whether he is qualified to do the job, whether he is doing his job, and whether he is doing it in the name of Christ.
If the pope claims that he is acting by the leading of the Holy Spirit, on what basis and by what authority does the average Catholic have to challenge that and determine that it is not so?