The quotes I put up of Paul VI are from 1976.
The tactic of disregarding VII because "it's not infallible" is straight out of a red sea pedestrian playbook.
Irrelevant:
Everyone who read
The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber 50 years ago has known the revolutionaries stressed how nothing was infallible during the council to get their subversive measures passed, only to later change their tune once said measures were passed, and pretend they were infallible. (So the 1976 date really only highlights this maneuver).
Vatican II is no more binding than a Sunday sermon.
And it has already been explained that all doctrinal novelties are
ipso facto relegated to the non-infallible magisterium. So Paul VI, Francis, and the rest of the conciliar popes can wail until they’re blue in the face about V2’s alleged infallibility, but if it ain’t got universality (geographical and temporal), it ain’t part of the magisterium, and it’s a brain boggler to read sedes pretending that novelty is magisterial.
Of course I really understand why they do: They sense their entire enterprise is shot if they acknowledge a level of magisterium merely authentic (ie., It destroys the mantra that if he is pope, you must obey, and also destroys the mantra that a pope cannot teach doctrinal error). What they don’t seem to realize is that by eliminating the authentic magisterium, thereby promoting all official papal teaching to the level of infallibility, they have just eliminated the need for distinguishing between the ordinary and extraordinary magisterium, since then everything would be infallible one way or the other.