[bornacatholic]

How "expedient" is it to be vilified and mocked for upholding Tradition?`

I understand how it is others do not accept what we Teach. I really don't understand why our authorities ought be charged with malign or self-interested intent.

[blue-duncan]

" I really don't understand why our authorities ought be charged with malign or self-interested intent."

And I really don't understand why the Calvinist position on "sola scriptura" is maligned and mocked as "superstition".

When one wants respect for a position, one gives respect to other positions.

[annalex]

I really don't understand why our authorities ought be charged with malign or self-interested intent.

Because that is all Protestantism is: a calumny of the intent of the Pope and the Church. The rationalizing false theologies of the "solas" came later.