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"And those who say one cannot oppose an Ecumenical Council are, I guess, Lobotomised Conciliar Fundamentalists and self-described traditionalists are the real faithful Catholics and they have the Liberty, and duty, to assert counter-propositions to the Documents of an Ecumenical Council so our Faith will be preserved."

"Lobotomised Conciliar Fundamentalists" was going to be copyrighted and sold to the Remnant for a fortune - but I guess you've scuppered that now! Still - has a nice Pythonesque sort of ring to it.

Again, you are putting polemical words in my mouth that I have not said like "oppose an Ecumenical Council" and "assert counter-propositions to the Documents of an Ecumenical Council". I am also not a self-described traditionalist, and most mainstream traditionalists would probably not so describe me either.

All I am saying is that there are a few passages (in my opinion small in number) in the Council documents which do not easily admit an interpretation which is clearly in continuity with Scripture and Tradition. Much ambiguity and confusion has resulted because of this over the last 40 years.

I should simply like to see the Magisterium, theologians and other experts in the ecclesiastical sciences called upon to answer these ambiguities. The extent and depth of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council call for a commitment to deeper study in order to reveal clearly the Council's continuity with Tradition, especially in points of doctrine which have not yet been well understood by some sections of the Church.

Until now the Magisterium has not even attempted to do this as far as I am aware.