text: "If the job of an Ecumenical Council...."
  
  So Vatican II was a joke?  As all the earlier Councils were? If I were Unitarian or even a Primitive Baptist, I would agree with you. Church Councils are a waste of money. Christians are a church apiece, or should be, with each Christian making up his or her own mind,  as it were, with the keys of the kingdom on each person's precious belt. The Spirit operates on a battery of individualism, right? That's seems to be the only "image of Spirit" you wish to look at in your theological mirror. But as a Catholic, that is childish, incoherent. We Catholics do theology through Church Councils, with theologians, the faithful and leaders examining the longest woven cloth of belief in Christian history -- as we have for two thousand years. Newman notes this in his work, including his last major work, THE GRAMMAR OF ASSENT, as have our greatest theologians. You're free, Kari, to step on the feet of these watch-people if you like, but to no effect.