It seems to me that they are more akin to the Orthodox than to Protestants.
<> The difficulty with that is that Orthodox do not grant themselves Liberty to reject Ecumenical Councils they accept as valid. In this instance, "catholics" want to both admit that Vatican Two was an Ecumenical Council - even though is was "merely pastoral - and they want the liberty to reject it in part or in whole.
They want to grant themselves more authority than an Ecumenical Council and that is a Protestant position. They want to grant the Liberty to themselves to make the final decision on each particular Document promulgated by that Infallible Council, and even each sentence within those Documents and even individual words of those indiviual sentences of each Document. They, it is palpably evident by some of the comments, are the ones with the Divinely-Constituted authority.
That ain't Catholic. <>