[RobbyS]

The Holy Father could be wrong on prudential matters, and I don't think his argument stands against those of St. Augustine and St. Thomas, or the different opinion of the present pope.

[madprof98]

It never fails to amaze me that the strongest critics of so-called cafeteria Catholics are self-described traditionalists who trash every teaching of the Church they dislike by invoking "prudential judgment" in the very same way the liberals invoke "conscience."

The hidden rationale is the same: I am a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democrat before I am a Christian.

The bottom line is also the same: I am the Supreme Authority over what I will and will not believe, and if the Church doesn't like it, the Church can stick it!