Thanks for sharing Nick's position from standard Catholicism. I note that tradition is essential, and yet every man judges both Scripture and tradition. The Catholic position has been characterized as suspending all judgment into the hands of capable leaders, except those leaders do not lift a finger to help you with the one decision that you can only make by yourself, to suspend your judgment to them in the first place. And you're just as responsible for it if that one decision is wrong as if you make the thousand small decisions yourself right or wrong. To meme it, something similar is called the "presumptive close" in sales and the "revelation of the method" in satanism.