LOL! You been snookered and good! TantumErgo really illustrated how dangerous knee jerk reactions can be. This is hilarious...he took a quote from the documents of Vat II and asked you which Traditionalist said it, you called it "protestant," but it was right outta VII!
The "protestant principle" that you are having problems with is actually based on a citation from the documents of Vatican II themselves:
"Taking conciliar custom into consideration and also the pastoral purpose of the present Council, the sacred Council defines as binding on the Church only those things in matters of faith and morals which it has expressly put forward as such." Appendix to Lumen Gentium.
Time to re-think the knee-jerk path, CG.
<> No, he didn't. Go back and read the post wherein he said he didn't know which trad said ...<>
The "protestant principle" that you are having problems with is actually based on a citation from the documents of Vatican II themselves:
<> Sorry, still wrong. The Council IS binding.<>
"Taking conciliar custom into consideration and also the pastoral purpose of the present Council, the sacred Council defines as binding on the Church only those things in matters of faith and morals which it has expressly put forward as such." Appendix to Lumen Gentium.
<> I'll have to wait until I get home to check the citation.<>
Time to re-think the knee-jerk path, CG
<> Never. Knee Jerk Papal Loyalty is the sine qua non of Catholicism, at least in my household.<>
<> Be careful, Polycarp. You are defending the indefensible and throwing in with one who is launching an attack on an Ecuemnical Council and that ain't funny...<>