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Yeah, this is all nonsense, made up to justify the R&R position.  In actual Traditional Catholic theology, the Magisterium determines what is consistent with Tradition and what is not.  This doesn't mean every single word that emanates from the merely-authentic Magisterium is infallible, but the Magisterium must be regarded as generally safe.  If there are some minor mistakes that creep into the Magisterium, they must be respectfully challenged ... from within the Church.

This is not a question of infallibility but, rather, of indefectibility.  If all we had was a problematic statement here or there in V2, that would be one thing.  But we now have a completely corrupt Magisterium over 60 years which is leading souls to hell, and a public worship that is displeasing to God and harmful to souls.

Sedes seem to argue that we should not think and merely mindlessly follow whatever comes from the Pope. Of course they do not do that. They judge what comes just as R&R do. With the R&R saying the pope is mistaken and the sedes the pope is not the Pope. But the judgment is the same. Neither look to the papacy the way that the sedes demand the R&R do. For in that case, when the Popes started declaring that black was white and white was black in the sixties, the sedes would have conformed their judgment to Rome no matter what, as Saint Ignatius said the Jesuits should, and believe white is black and black is white, rather than thinking for themselves. For even if the pope was false, the lack of trust according to the sede model condemns them. What is the meaning of gaslighting? I want to use that word here but am not sure if it is proper.

Just a question. How can one trust the Pope absolutely as the sedes demand? If at any time the Pope could teach heresy and fall from his state unknown to all? So you can never know if the pope is real and his teaching is true, or if he is false and is teaching lies? The sedes even reject the Papacy of John XXIII who was accepted by the whole world and all Catholics and there weren't even traditional Catholics for six or seven years after he died, let alone sedevacantists. It would make sense to follow blindly if we knew that what happened today is impossible because God would not allow it. But it happened so that model is dead. I mean if a true Pope were elected tomorrow and was accepted by the sedes and he declared BOD was a heresy, they would reject the Pope again and declare a sede vacante again.