I am retired and well into my 70’s and I live in the UK. As I am considerably disabled I am not a member of a particular parish. Were I fit enough I would attend a Tridentine Rite Parish, however, the nearest one is too far for me to travel to so when I am able to go to Mass I attend one of a number of Novus Ordo Churches near where I live.
You asked where I get my ideas from, I do not rely upon ideas where religion is concerned I rely upon the teaching I received firstly at my mother’s knee, my school, my Sunday school, the religious order I entered and the Pontifical University, the Angelicum, where I studied for the priesthood:I did not persevere to ordination.
I do not distinguish between dogma and infallible doctrine as both are true and cannot be changed. As regards the Church being mankind’s sole teacher, who can argue with that? The authority to teach was given to the Church alone and to no one else by Christ. Why do you find that strange or don’t you believe it?
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