[ThomasMore]

a mere pastoral council?

You belittle an ecumenical council? You don't accept the validity of the Council? You obviously have a problem with the Council. Or is it, you have a problem with the implementation of the Council directives?

[ultima ratio]

Oh, Vatican II was valid. I am not suggesting it wasn't. But that is not saying much. Nothing it stated was infallibly protected by the Holy Spirit except that which had already been stated in many past councils. Nothing new was declared as dogma, though there were dogmatic statements. But these, as I say, had already been stated previously. The rest was pastoral--which is not infallible. One proof of this is how quickly the Council's insistence that the Latin liturgy must be retained was rejected soon after the Council closed.