The authority of the Roman Pontiff is vicarious of Christ’s authority and derives legitimacy from its conformity with this ontological reality.

Conversely, Bergoglio’s authority openly proclaims itself to be independent and self-referential: he thinks he can use and abuse his own power and the authority (and authoritativeness) of the Catholic Church simply because he knows that the clergy and the Christian people have been accustomed, in the last sixty years, to accept any change imposed on them by the Authority of the Church.

Oh so true!

In civil society, laws are written by legislators in some cases decades before a court case occurs. The exact circumstances of a case may not have been foreseen by the legislators, for example because a certain technology did not exist at the time or perhaps for other reasons. The point being that in a good and proper justice system lawyers argue by reference to other cases and by analogy why this or that particular action in question fell under that particular law. The point is they don't pull shit out of their ass, they look at the case in context of other similar cases.

The Catholic Church is supposed to function like that too. Popes are not supposed to be pulling shit out of their ass, but by making references to similar circumstances in history, making references to other papal teachings in similar circumstances, and obviously making references to the Bible, they are supposed to bring Christ's wisdom to bear on present questions of the day as needed and only as needed.

As Pope Francis, he sometimes (arguably even "often") does actually say true things. But as Abp. Vigano rightly points out, the same man often pulls shit out of his ass. There is no possible way you can trace Bergoglio's teachings on (say) the morality of using air conditioning or the requirement to accept random invaders into your country to any context in past Church teachings or the Bible.

This is the basic strategy of the Left, as described by the late great Anne Roche Muggeridge in her books "The Gates of Hell" and "The Desolate City" about the revolutionary forces within the Catholic Church and how the pattern of revolutions in the political sphere was being followed in the Catholic Church after Vatican II.

It's the process IowaHawk David Burge on Twitter pithily described as:

1. Identify a respected institution.
2. Kill it.
3. Gut it.
4. Wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.