Max, I can actually appreciate the fact that you see the need to be consistent; if Benedict is the POpe, you should submit to him.
However it is gravely manifest that he is a blasphemous heretic who hides his heresies in the bookends of "orthodoxy" which is further complicated by the fact that his "orthodoxy" consists of gobbledygook that conservative Novus Ordites consider "wisdom."
It is worth calling to mind the Papal coronation oath that JPI JPII and BENNY have REFUSED to take: It's like they know in the back of their mind that they have no legitimate ministry in the church:
Might I call to mind the PAPAL CORONATION OATH, taken by Paul VI:
Since the "Popes" WILLFULLY have decided NOT to take the papal coronation oath, we may indeed WONDER if they intend to do anything contained in that oath at all:
"I vow to change nothing of the received Tradition, and nothing thereof I have found before me guarded by my God-pleasing predecessors, to encroach upon, to alter, or to permit any innovation therein;
"To the contrary: with glowing affection as her truly faithful student and successor, to safeguard reverently the passed-on good, with my whole strength and utmost effort;
"To cleanse all that is in contradiction to the canonical order, should such appear; to guard the Holy Canons and Decrees of our Popes as if they were the divine ordinance of Heaven, because I am conscious of Thee, whose place I take through the Grace of God, whose Vicarship I possess with Thy support, being subject to severest accounting before Thy Divine Tribunal over all that I shall confess;
"I swear to God Almighty and the Savior Jesus Christ that I will keep whatever has been revealed through Christ and His Successors and whatever the first councils and my predecessors have defined and declared.
"I will keep without sacrifice to itself the discipline and the rite of the Church. I will put outside the Church whoever dares to go against this oath, may it be somebody else or I.
"If I should undertake to act in anything of contrary sense, or should permit that it will be executed, Thou willst not be merciful to me on the dreadful Day of Divine Justice.
"Accordingly, without exclusion, We subject to severest excommunication anyone -- be it Ourselves or be it another -- who would dare to undertake anything new in contradiction to this constituted evangelic Tradition and the purity of the orthodox Faith and the Christian religion, or would seek to change anything by his opposing efforts, or would agree with those who undertake such a blasphemous venture." Papal Coronation Oath: Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificuм, P.L. 105, S 54.
It could be very easily argued, that if Paul VI were a valid Pope, he violated this oath, which means he EXCOMMUNICATED HIMSELF upon his approval and close of the vatican council. Therefore his succesors are not real Popes.
By his actions, including the signing into action the second Vatican Council which taught both error and heresy and betrayed the Catholic Faith, Paul VI has IN THE SIGHT OF GOD EXCOMMUNICATED HIMSELF from the Church. Therefore he has no authority, he is fully excommunicate, and his successors are anti-popes; for he was neither formally deposed, nor did he rescind his decrees, ESPECIALLY Lumen Gentium which re-defined the nature of the Church and therefore the Roman Pontificate.
Anathema sit.