<> Do you think Ecumenical Councils are impeccable and that is an intrinsic characteristic of them?<>
When legitimately concerned Catholics are denounced as heretics and schismatics for asking questions in good faith?
<> They are not asking questions in good faith. They are granting themselves liberty to reject, in part or in whole, an Ecumenical Council.<>
Such actions only reinforce the most ill-informed misconceptions of obedience of Papal authority as submission to a tyrant, not following a shepherd.
<> The Pope is a Shepherd and he apears to be a tryant to those opposed to him. We, to continue the metaphor, ought to be trusting and obedient sheep, not Lone Traditional Wolves.<>
Traditionalists want to be able to trust the Pope. But we know that such trust can only be reposed not in his person, but in his office, and only so far as he exercises his Divinely-constituted office to protect and promote the deposit of faith.
We follow the Shepherd where he follows his Master. We know how faithfully he follows his Master by where he leads the Church.
We will never reject the necessity for union with and submission to the Pope, for to do so is to reject the Tradition and Deposit of Faith of which he is the fiduciary.