1. How do we know that you are quoting accurately? How do we know that you aren't taking it out of context? How do we know that this quote ever actually existed?
Ultima, at this point, if you asserted the sky is blue, I would run outside to check before believing you. Without independent third-party verification, nothing you post ought to be believed.
You have quoted out of context. You have misquoted. You have misrepresented the words of others. And now, you have posted lies (Though I believe that you did this inadvertently by quoting liars in whom you had faith.).
2. If this quote is real, the author asserts what is not logical. He, himself cites the note as being to Lumen Gentium. He, himself admits that the reason for the note was to clear up matters pertaining to definitions about the collegiality of bishops, and the authority of the popes, as Fr. Abbott said in his actual footnote, applying the note to Chapter III of Lumen Gentium.
It is an extraordinary leap of logic (wishful thinking?) to try to apply the note which was clearly meant for Lumen Gentium, even by this author's own admission, to the rest of the Council.
Of course, this morsel just plain old contradicts the truth:
"One could say therefore, that this pronouncement exempts Vatican II as a whole from any dogmatic responsibility and ipso facto does not oblige any faithful to accept it..."
The final act of the Council by Pope Paul VI enjoins all Catholics to obey and accept all the results of the Council. Explicitly. Thus even meeting the internal requirements of the note.
3. It wouldn't matter anyway. Few of us have claimed that the Council offered any new infallible definitions. We have merely claimed that the Council taught no error. That is an infallibility guaranteed to all Councils.
In conclusion: your "scholarship" is to be disregarded; but at least you ought to offer something that would actually buttress your false arguments, rather than a quote which is logically flawed, and thus supports the arguments of your adversary; and your point, if you could prove it, is beside the point.
Care to offer an explanation of why you quoted a lie from The Great Facade? Care to offer comment on the worthiness of that work? The intellectual honesty of Messrs. Ferrara and Woods?
In charity,
sitetest