The Healing of the Papal Schism

As we stated, though the papal schism was a scandal, churchmen were at a loss how to end it. For the view had embedded itself in men's souls that, there was no power on earth to which the papacy was responsible. But there were individuals who openly declared that under Christ the supreme judicial power in the church is not the pope but the believers as assembled in a general council and who therefore urged that a general council be called for the healing of the schism. The idea of a general...