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<> It IS funny though. Woods and Ferrara really do show the schismatic mindset in action. THEY are The Magisterium and the Pope, Vatican Two, the Missa Normativa, the Curia ect ALL must answer to them.

IT is no different an orientation than that of the scores of protestants who come here demanding that we follow their peculiar, particular, and personal opinions about Scripture, Doctrine, Liturgy, Ecumenism ect. They really do think themselves the authority.

And they really do think themselves better informed about Scripture, Doctrine, Liturgy, Philospohy, Ecumenism then us poor Neo-Catholics.

They sift through old manuals, missals, maunscripts and mendaciously manufacture quibbles based upon partial quotes selected out of context to contend against the Divinely-Constituted authority and, then, if you call them what they are, protestants, they whelp like ululating Bedouin wives at the burial of their husband and demand we prove them wrong. Sheesh...they are a catty and contentious lot

It is as though Jesus never intended a Living Magisterium...No, I guess he intended a debating club where converts like Woods can castigate a brilliant Pope as though he were a toothless rube from the foothills of Pine Bluff<>

Why do neo-Catholics continually use the phrase "living" Magisterium? Isn't it because they want the faithful to ignore the Magisterium of those now dead if it is in conflict with what's now going on? Of course it is. It is to disguise the fact that today's Magisterium is not in conformity with the Magisterium of the past--and this presents a problem. Of course, the truth is that the ordinary Magisterium of the papacy enjoys no protection of infallibility unless it is aligned with the perennial teachings of the Church--in other words, with the Magisterium of past pontificates. Novelty is never binding on anybody--particularly in times of genuine crisis when apostasy wafts through the Vatican like a foul air. In times like this, only fidelity to perennial teachings are binding--and safe.