More Catholics need to read Weninger's book "On the Apostolic and Infallible Authority of the Pope" to get a proper understanding of how Fathers, Doctors, theologians and the faithful behaved towards the papacy.
While I did not read that book, I came to that conclusion no my own ... after I entered the SSPX seminary. Once you start reading pre-Vatican II Catholic ecclesiology, you very quickly realize that R&R is not tenable.