[magisterium]

And where, exactly, are the footprints of this remnant you speak about, following a path from the 1st century to today? You have no such footprints because they do not exist. People often cite heretics like the Albigensians, for example, simply because of the fact that they were "against what Rome teaches." But they, and the other usual suspects - disconnected from each other by doctrine, time and location, BTW - had particulars in their doctrine that all modern-day non-Catholic Christians would be ashamed to associate with. Forget that these tiny splinter groups had no connection with each other doctrinally, they have no connection with your groups, too!

If you have specific information to the contrary, linking all times in the Christian era by way of some remnant containing a "pure" Christian doctrine that existed throughout all of that time without an extinction, please feel free to share at length your sources. Otherwise, you must consider that you might possibly be wrong in your assertions, and the guarantee of God's providence promised in Matthew 28 might have been preserved through avenues you currently find ...distasteful.

[Quix]

Naw.

Others have done a decent enough job on that in the past hereon.

No amount of proof influences addictive idolatrous devotion to a certain bureaucratic magicsterical committee in the least.

It's not remotely worth the bother.