It's time again to take a look at another quote that gets posted around the Internet.
"All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope." -Robert Bellarmine, On the Authority of Councils, Volume 2: 266.
An alternate version of this is:
"All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope." -On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17
This is therefore used to claim (either by implication or by the person posting it explicitly making the claim) that all the names, including things like "Son of God", are applied to the pope. Unlike many of these sorts of quotes, however, a citation is provided, and actually a decent enough one, particularly the latter (far too many of these sorts of copied and pasted quotes would just say something like "Bell. 2.17"). This means it can be looked up.
However, even in the context of the above quote, this seems a bit exaggerated--Bellarmine does specify the titles are "by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church". In other words, it is only those titles that are in question, not all titles. So even before looking it up, this is a questionable quote to attack Bellarmine or Catholicism with. But what about in context?
The work is in Latin. However, someone has recently published an English translation. I am using "De Controversiis Tomus III On the Church, containing On Councils, On the Church Militant, and on the Marks of the Church" which was published in 2017 and was translated by Ryan Grant. The applicable chapter begins on page 205, which is also where the quote is found, which here is translated as "It is proven from reason, and founded in the scriptures; for all the names which are given to Christ in the Scriptures whereby it is certain that he is above the Church, all the same are attributed to the pope."
But what are the
names in question? Well, first, for a bit of context, this chapter is
entitled "The Supreme Pontiff is absolutely above a Council" and he is
arguing about how the pope is of higher authority than a general
council of the church. All ellipses and italics are in the work being quoted. Here is the applicable portion, typed up as best as I can:
"It is proven from reason, and founded in the scriptures; for all the names which are given to Christ in the Scriptures whereby it is certain that he is above the Church, all the same are attributed to the Pope. First, Christ is the householder in his house, which is the Church, the Pope in the same house is the supreme steward, i.e. in the place of Christ the householder: Who is a faithful steward, and prudent, whom the Lord constituted above his household, etc." (Luke 12:42) Here, by steward, or oeconomon, as it is in the Greek text, the Fathers understand a Bishop. Ambrose, as well as Hilary and Jerome (in cap. 24 Matth., where a similar sentence is contained) understand this passage in the same way. And although the Fathers do not speak expressly about the Roman Bishop, nevertheless, without a doubt the teaching of that Scripture is: as particular Bishops are supreme stewards over their Churches, so the Roman Bishop is in the universal Church. Wherefore, Ambrose, on 1 Timothy 3. That you would know how you ought to be preserved in the house of God, etc., he says: "The Church is called the house of God, whose ruler today is Damasus." And Chrysostom, in lib. 2 de sacerdotio, near the beginning, cites this passage: "Who is a faithful servant," etc., explaining that it is about Peter.
However, the supreme steward is over the household, and he cannot be judged and punished by it, as is clear from the same passage, for the Lord says: "whom the Lord constituted over his household ... But if the servant would say in his heart: 'the master delays his coming', and would begin to strike the servants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and be drunk, the Master will come on a day in which he hopes not, and divine him and place his lot with the infidels." There you see the Lord saves that servant for his judgment and does not consign him to the judgment of the household. The use of all household teaches the same thing; for there is no household in which it would be lawful for inferior servants to punish even when gathered together, or expel the steward, even if he were the worst, for it pertains to the Lord of the household alone.
The second name of Christ is shepherd, "I am the good shepherd, etc." He shares the same with Peter in the last chapter of John: "Feed my sheep." It is certain, however, that a shepherd is so in charge of the sheep that he cannot be judged by them."
The third is "head of the Body of the Church," (Eph. 4:15-16), and he shares the same with Peter, as we have it in the Council of Chalcedon, act. 3, where the legates pronounce sentence against Dioscorus, and in the epistle of the Council to Leo. Moreover, that the head would be ruled by the members and not rather rule them is against nature, just as also it is against nature for the members to cut off their head when it is gravely sick.
The fourth is husband, or bridegroom (Ephesians 5:25), "Men, love your wives just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for it, etc." The same agrees with Peter, for in the general Council of Lyons, as it is found in c. Ubi periculum, de electione, in Sexto, the Council speaks on the election of a Roman Pontiff: "Let a useful provision make haste for the necessary things of the whole world, for a suitable bridegroom to speedily be given to the Church." But it is against the Apostle in Ephesians 5:25 as well as against the order of nature that the bride would be in charge of the bridegroom, and not rather subject."
After this, Bellarmine moves onto other arguments on why he believes popes are above councils, but the above is everything concerning titles. I did have to type the above up manually so I apologize if I made any typos. Whatever one thinks of the above arguments, it is abundantly clear that Bellarmine's statement of applying the names refers only to the specific titles above: Householder/steward, shepherd, head of the Body of the Church, and husband/bridegroom. Trying to turn this quote into some kind of claim that it was Bellarmine claiming the Pope held titles like "savior" or "God" is just silly when one reads him in context (or, quite frankly, even out of context).