Regarding: "Vatican I specifically condemned the proposition that dogma changes. You may not like the teaching, but that IS the teaching. To that end, it is the pope who defects."
- When the dogma is true to the church, then yes. For instance, the Real Presence in the Eucharist is dogma and does not look like that it will ever change.
- However, doctrines flowing from dogma are indeed mutable for it is by teaching and the dialog from that teaching, as well as the learning pertaining to those doctrines that the truth and richness of the dogma is revealed and exfoliated in the world for each age. The goal being that as we live a dogma we engage more fully with the divine and in so doing learn more about what was hitherto unknown.
- As each man elected to the papacy fulfills his calling imbued with the holy spirit and uptakes the teaching authority, it is the archbishop, successor of Peter, who guides the church in learning what is yet unknown in the divine mystery.