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Mithryndylan,

Is it still "proximate" when it's an ordinary magisterium that is now remote some 60 or so years?

Is your methodology better because you judge this ordinary magisterium (and all since John XXIII or Paul VI) by a prior magisterium, while those who deny BOD judge the ordinary magisterium by the infallible and solemn magisterium?

For one, I'll take the Feeneyite approach, which does not involve the Holy Ghost abandoning the magisterium at a set date in history or at the beginning of a certain pontificate, but accepts that an ordinary magisterium that is not about defending what was believed "always, anywhere, by all" goes beyond the Holy Ghost's protection and can err and still be the One True Church without contradicting that protection , obviously (because acting beyond it), and doesn't have your problem of explaining how heresy can overrun the duly-elected, governing hierarchy in areas where it should be immune from error and indefectible according to your "manuals" and theologians.

I've been doing this for years and usually drop out after a brief return to it (because it's a vital question and won't go away) because there isn't a hidden observation that's going to convince the other side - someone would have found it by now.

We wait on the Lord to resolve it, and the sooner the better. 

It is possible that a member of the Jєωιѕн Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul