Re: Catholics less nutty than Protestants: more evidence
"His predecessors cannot bind him in that, only on doctrinal matters infallibly decreed."
That is precisely the assertion I am making. I do not argue his authority to institute a new mass or make canonical decrees. I am speaking specifically of doctrinal matters.
But the Pope cannot make one NOT celebrate the Latin Mass anymore than he cannot make one NOT pray the Rosary. If he were to excommunicate anyone for disobeying him on these matters, he merely separates them from his own irreligion.
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