[BlackElk]

You misread (why are we surprised) the meaning of the sentence you quoted from Vatican I. The meaning is equivalent to: "....... that by His revelation they might (sell bubble gum)" That is to say that the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of St. Peter to protect against error. This is not an invitation for you to pick or choose what YOU THINK is error but an invitation for you to submit to papal authority and the dogmas of the Church not for you to be a cafeteria type adhering to whatever pleases your rarified tastes and self-importance.

[ultima ratio]

I do not misread the Vatican I statement. This is why Cardinal Newman made the point that it sets limits on the papacy. This is why Cardinal Ratzinger makes the same point, that the pope is not an absolute monarch. The pope is not a god to be worshiped--as you do. That is idolatry, not Catholicism. When the Pope misuses his authority and commands what is wrong, he must be disobeyed, not worshiped. The faith comes first.

[ninenot]

The term 'submission' does not necessarily imply unthinking and uncritical. But it DOES mean submission. And it implies a certain humility, not so far evident in SSPX materials or in the posts of those who adhere to SSPX....