I am simply reminding you that the Old Catholics contended that they, not Vatican I, represented the True Faith.
Vatican I was not the beginning of a revolution. There are no parallels between what's been happening the past forty years and the preconciliar Church. We once had a Church that was a refuge of stability in an uncertain world; now we have a Church in search of its vocation. It's falling apart before our eyes. All traditionalists are doing is holding tight to what has always been believed. We're not buying the Pope's new universalist religion.