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There is more to the True Faith than obedience to the Pope. Tradition had always been the byword in the RCC until Vatican II. Then we got the lawyerspeak worthy of the New Testament scribes that explained the difference between Tradition and traditon. The capitalization of the T! Of course! How could I have missed it. And everything with the Big T was what the progressives liked and the little t was what the traditionalists liked. Little t was bad, regressive and got in the way of the new springtime that was going to follow Vatican II.

God is the same from age to age. Yet somehow we are to submit to a Pope who can undermine his own authority because he alone has the authority to do so. We've had a long reigning Pope so submitting to his authority may have come easy to you. Now what happens when a new Pope comes and tosses out the changes of the last Pope?
And what of bishops who disregard the Pope? Aren't we supposed to obey them? Or the priest?
God is Love and Truth. Both of those are constant, not capricious. The church has turned her back most uncharitably on her most ardent believers and then blamed the traditionalists for the breach. The Tradition circumscribed the authority of the Pope and didn't allow him the free reign to declare whatever he wanted and have it recognized as legitimate simply because he's in the Chair of Peter. If you recall even Peter had to be upbraided by Paul for his duplicity with the Gentiles.