I think the principle you mentioned is being abused to justify positions that some have taken in this crisis.  What commentary are you relying on that justifies many of the positions we see in our times, rejecting a rite of mass approved by the Pope, rejecting canons approved by the Pope, etc.

I’ve never seen any, and I think it’s a made up novelty.

I’d like to see a single writing from the time of the Apostles all the way to 1960 that ever states that a rite of mass could be an abomination, or a sacrilege, or an incentive to impiety, and therefore Catholics must reject the papally approved mass.  

"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema." Gal. 1:8

You asked for something in writing, you got what you asked for.

To answer you, of course the Church cannot give evil.

 Is the pope the Church, yes or no?

What leads me is the fact that the Church is Christ, they are one and the same. Christ is the head of the Church, the pope is only the visible head, we might say that as Christ's Vicar, he is Christ's deputy but our superior. We can also say that he will answer to Christ for everything he says and does - just like the rest of us. There is no escape for any of us, not even the pope.

To date, no one has mentioned exactly what it is that he is supposed to have bound us to.

As for the new [sacramental] rites, he is bound to protect and preserve them, that's why God created the office. God did not establish the papacy in order for the pope to change them into something new, something doubtful. Then again, he actually believes that whatever he says or does is infallible or infallibly safe.

I know right from wrong, as such I know when the pope wants me to do something wrong - we've had 2000 years worth of popes to teach us right from wrong, that's one of the ways we all know right from wrong - and what the conciliar popes do and wish we would do is wrong, and we must not follow them in their error or we will go to hell. If you like to think that makes the Church a democracy, so be it. But I know that the Church is Christ, and I belong to the Church.



We are bound to obey God first, because of that, we may not follow the popes in their error - and these men are true popes, true they are evil, but no one has proved they are not popes.

We all know that the conciliar popes publicly commit grave sins and scandals, they should not do this, they must not do this - but people think that they are divinely protected from doing this - they're not. They are only protected from the slightest possibility of error when they define a dogma ex cathedra. That's it. Beyond that, they can do as they have done, namely, publicly sin all they want and remain pope. There is nothing anyone can do about it - zero, nadda, nuthin. But we don't follow them in their errors on account of them being popes - unless we want to sin.