Commonly informed consciousness instructs faith as property of People and not the right and privilege of hierarchical claim given by God from the top-down. Church is The People.—sylvester(pat)steffen  felgercarb to deny any and all authority to the Teaching Magisterium of the Church and having it reside in The People.  The People are gross, crass, and greedy; rude, crude, and lewd; given a chance they will kill you and shoot themselves in the foot, at least, sometimes, so it seems to me.  When The People are endowed with all authority, no one has any authority, so it seems to me, anyway.