text: But at least in this case it is more than important to recall and understand the formal teachings of the Church regarding papal authority.  How you or I or others want it to be is, for right now, inconsequential.  This is an issue of what has been doctrinally taught for centuries, and what some ultra traditionalists have purposely distorted it to be.  It is about their own  hypocrisy and sinfully selective use of sentences and partial quotes to support a view of Pope Francis based in hate.  We see this almost daily right here in these comments by a select few rabid trads who invent theology to give support to their pressing need to maintain a fantasy version of the Church based in their feelings and on nothing else. These are the same folks who refuse to accept Vatican II and post selective parts of sentences from the council documents as if they are authorities on them and know more then the council Fathers.  It is all the same:it is THEIR arguments re: +Francis that are the offenses.