Re: de asini umbra disceptare
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"Liturgy is decided by the synod of bishops and the pope, not by minority interests in the church."
But as discussed in the previous post, even a synod of Bishops and Pope can be wrong when not making use of their infallible authority.
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See you can't have it both ways. If liturgy=doctrine then a council's positions on liturgy affirmed by the pope has to be infallible (councils don't have to use the formula "I define and declare"). And if it's not doctrine, then it is a practice regulated by canon law, and the canonical decision is necessarily right since the bishops and pope have the right to make the determinations which should be followed, and failing to do so is disobediance.
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