No offense, but don't be stupid; my argument derives from considerations regarding the infallibility of the Magisterium.


Up until a few minutes ago, you did everything but respond to Nishant's points; there was no relevant argument.

Anyways, its hard not to be stupid when you're me.

I'm sorry that I got upset.  This argument spills over from multiple other threads on the same subject, so there's a background that was implied.

Between us here, what I don't "like" is Traditional Catholicism.  I can't stand it.  There's nothing I'd rather do than to be able to just be a normal Catholic, to be able to go to the Catholic church down the street for Mass and Confession and Eucharistic Adoration.  There's nothing I'd rather do than to stop having to deal with theological issues and get embroiled in constant polemic.  I would much rather just go to an FSSP Mass center or an Eastern Rite church, pray for the Holy Father Francis, and go about the business of saving my soul as a normal ordinary run-of-the-mill mainstream Catholic.  I'm tired of being a Traditional Catholic.  I just want to be a Catholic.  If I went by what I liked, I would be a Novus Ordo Catholic.  But my conscience simply will not permit that.  I often envy those who just blithely go to the Novus Ordo and haven't a care in the world.

For this reason Jerome addresses Damasus thus: "My words are spoken to the successor of the Fisherman, to the disciple of the Cross....I communicate with none save your Blessedness, that is with the chair of Peter. For this I know is the rock on which the Church is built" (Ep. xv., ad Damasum, n. 2). Union with the Roman See of Peter is to him always the public criterion of a Catholic. "I acknowledge everyone who is united with the See of Peter" (Ep. xvi., ad Damasum, n. 2). And for a like reason St. Augustine publicly attests that, "the primacy of the Apostolic chair always existed in the Roman Church" (Ep. xliii., n. 7); and he denies that anyone who dissents from the Roman faith can be a Catholic. "You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held" (Sermo cxx., n. 13). So, too, St. Cyprian: "To be in communion with Cornelius is to be in communion with the Catholic Church" (Ep. lv., n. 1). In the same way Maximus the Abbot teaches that obedience to the Roman Pontiff is the proof of the true faith and of legitimate communion. Therefore if a man does not want to be, or to be called, a heretic, let him not strive to please this or that man...but let him hasten before all things to be in communion with the Roman See.

SATIS COGNITUM
 ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII

So then you have to do the same with “your” Pope, Benedict XVI. You must accept everything he has taught.

You must accept the New Theology, Vatican II, the New Mass, and everything else.

If Benedict is still the pope, it solves NOTHING!

Why do you act like he is so much better than Francis?

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So you attack me based upon former positions that I believed in. Nice way of derailing of my position on the R & R position.

Pat yourself on the back and go away.

I am a sedevacantist. Can't you see that. I was attacking the R & R position by showing the impossible position one is put in by accepting Francis as a pope.

You are?  I just saw a post by you in one of nottamblas Benedict is still pope threads, and it sounded like you agreed with her.