[gcruse]

"The authority of councils and Popes is at bottom merely the authority of the night watchman who guards a museum whose works he could not have created himself, and would not presume to tamper with."

And yet, the watchman feels adequate to interpret what the works mean and requires museum visitors to accept his version of things or stay out of the museum, even claiming infallibility as he does so.  Some think this is wholly unholy.