I read with some interest the article by Fr. The solution to the ecumenical problem of the filioque proposed by Fr. This is his terminology. However, he does not say where the authority to revoke this sacred tradition would come from. The pope does not revoke sacred tradition, and subsequent councils build on it.
Tradition is an integral fabric.
Webster s implications are obvious. The same downgrading could then be done for Vatican I presumably in favor of making peace with both the Orthodox and the Protestants who do not accept the doctrine of papal infallibility. On the same grounds, Vatican II could be downgraded for the sake of compromise with whatever group dislikes its assertions about the divine constitution of the Church as expressed in Lumen Gentium . In effect, Fr. Webster s solution abolishes Catholicism and sets up Orthodoxy and Protestantism as poised to assimilate the debris once the Church is dismembered and the contents of Heinrich Denzinger s Enchiridion Symbolorum is downgraded.