The lady we call St. Catherine of Siena argued with the Pope and won.
The Pope is not the sole authority and people argue with him to this day. (There's a difference between "sole" and "final".) As happens, when the argument lasts long enough, when the Pope decides that he has won or lost, if other reasons justify it, he will "define" the conclusion. THEN it's "final". Up until then, it's "in play".
I am not trying to persuade you of any doctrine here. I am trying to help you confine your arguments to what the Church actually teaches rather than something she doesn't teach.
Thank you for explaining that. The Pope’s authority on matters of doctrine is one of the most misunderstood teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. It is often wrongly stated around here. I still disagree with it, but it is good to get the actual separated from the imagined.
I think many times you tend to be technically accurate.
But still somehow miss the boat.
It’s even plausible to me that you have a genuine RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD and that somehow the mess of the RC edifice manages to help facilitate that RELATIONSHIP for you.
Praise The Lord and Pass the ammunition.
When you seem to get all bound up in your underwear over the Mary stuff and some other RC edifice stuff that smacks of outrageous idolatry, blasphemy, sheer and utter nonsense historically, logically, linguistically . . . that leaves me shaking my head in dismay and mystified that a bright fellow like you would fall for such a pile of stinking tradition and traditions of men.