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| | INFALLIBILITY - LoveToKnow Article on INFALLIBILITY |
 | | The substance of the claim to infallibility made by the Roman Catholic Church is that the Church and the pope cannot err when solemnly enunciating, as binding on all the faithful, a Secision on a question of faith or morala. | | | The infallibility of the Church, thus limited, is a necessary outcome of the fundamental conception of the Catholic Church and its mission. | | | This belief in the infallibility of revelation is involved in the very belief in revelation itself, and is common to all sections of Christians, who differ mainly as to the kind and measure of infallibility residing in the human instruments by which this revelation is interpreted to the world. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/I/IN/INFALLIBILITY.htm
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| | BIGpedia - Papal Infallibility - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Infallible statements in the former category are said to exercise the "Universal" or "Constant" Magisterium (and the doctrine which strictly and merely repeats what the church has always taught is considered infallible); infallible statements in the latter category are said to exercise the "Extraordinary" or "Solemn" Magisterium. | | | In Catholic theology, papal infallibility is the dogma that the Pope, when he solemnly defines a matter of faith and morals ex cathedra (that is, officially and as pastor of the universal Church), is always correct, and thus does not have the possibility of error. | | | Universal Cathechism of the Catholic Church on Infallibility |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Papal_infallibility
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| | Infallibility |
| | Infallibility, in Christian theology, is the doctrine that in matters of faith and morals the church, both in teaching and in believing, is protected from substantive error by divine dispensation. | | | Salmon, The Infallibility of the Church; B.B. Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible. | | | Roman Catholic theology asserts that the entire church is infallible (and therefore cannot err in matters of faith) when, from bishops to laity, it shows universal agreement in matters of faith and morals. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/infallib.htm
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| | Newsletter |
| | Infallibility, and especially papal infallibility, is one of the most misunderstood doctrines of the Catholic Church. | | | Infallibility is a charism for the church, to be used in service of protecting the gospel and fostering the living faith of the Christian community. | | | Papal infallibility is part of the general guidance of the Holy Spirit over the life of the church. |
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http://moses.creighton.edu/CSRS/news/F96-2.html
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| | Infallibility |
| | Infallibility however, as it is applied to the Pope, and to the Catholic Church which is in union with him, is not the same thing as inspiration. | | | In pronouncing the infallible truth that Jesus was indeed "the Christ, the Son of the living God," Peter was not echoing the conclusions of his reasonings. | | | Infallible authority is so essential to the true Christian Church that without it there would be no visible divine Church at all. |
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http://www.catholicism.org/pages/infal.htm
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| | Infallibility |
| | Papal infallibility means that the pope cannot err when teaching solemnly or definitively on a matter of faith or morals. | | | Although the bishops have the gift of infallibility when they maintain the bond of unity between themselves and the Pope and teach definitively on a matter of faith or morals, and bind the Church to accept it, the Pope has this charism as an individual. | | | Infallibility does not imply that the Pope knows Scripture and the Catholic faith better than anyone. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/members/catholictracts/tract29.html
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| | infallibility on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Roman Catholics hold that the infallibility of the church is vested in the pope, when he speaks ex cathedra (i.e., from the chair of Peter, as the visible head of the church) on matters of faith and morals. | | | The Orthodox Eastern Church holds that only the church, taken as an integral community and spiritual body guided by the Holy Spirit, is infallible. | | | The analogous attribute of the Bible is usually called inerrancy. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/i1/infallib.asp
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infallibility |
| | That the Church is infallible in her definitions on faith and morals is itself a Catholic dogma, which, although it was formulated ecumenically for the first time in the Vatican Council, had been explicitly taught long before and had been assumed from the very beginning without question down to the time of the Protestant Reformation. | | | the infallibility claimed for the pope is the same in its nature, scope, and extent as that which the Church as a whole possesses; his ex cathedra teaching does not have to be ratified by the Church's in order to be infallible. | | | Theories of conciliar and of papal infallibility do not logically stand or fall together, since in the Catholic view the co-operation and confirmation of the pope in his purely primatial capacity are necessary, according to the Divine constitution of the Church, for the ecumenicity and infallibility of a council. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
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| | The Papacy - book 2, chapter 7 |
| | I believed the infallibility of the Church, because the Scripture said she was infallible; while I had no better proof that the Scripture said so than the assertion of the Church that she could not mistake the Scripture."[7] | | | That the fathers are not only not infallible, but are not even exempt from the faults of obscurity and inconsistency, is manifest from the voluminous commentaries which have been written to make their meaning clear, as well as from the fact, that the fathers directly contradict one another, and the same father sometimes contradicts himself. | | | But herein they differ, that while the infallible tribunal of the Protestant is God speaking in the Bible, the infallible tribunal of the Papist is the voice of the Church. |
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http://www.freepres.org/papacy/pap02-07.htm
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| | What is Papal Infallibility |
| | He said that the decision was irrevocable, irreformable and infallible as a doctrine of the Catholic faith. | | | On October 28, 1995 Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, with the Pope’s approval, released a statement saying that the norms of the earlier statement of 1994 required "definitive assent" to the fact that the Church does not have the authority to ordain women. | | | In this case, the Magisterium was merely confirming what was already obvious to many Catholics: that Christ wanted a male priesthood, that this teaching was handed on to the Apostles and has been taught always and everywhere by the Catholic Church, and has always and everywhere been believed by the body of the Catholic faithful. |
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http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Issues/Papal-Infallibility/papal-infallibility.html
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| | A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes |
| | The pope is declared to be infallible when he declares to the Church: 'Whatever in matters of faith and morals is by the whole Church to be held "as part of the faith (tamquam de fide)" or rejected as "contrary to the faith (tamquam fidei contrarium)".' | | | The infallibility question had now been placed before the bishops, and for the rest of the council this absorbed all their time. | | | The changes made in the text of the proposed constitution had greatly displeased some of "the extreme papal school"[57] among the bishops, and they called for the suppression of the new historical passage, and asked that the infallibility be explicitly declared to extend beyond the field of faith and morals. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/coun21.html
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| | Commonweal: Infallibility I & II - papal infallibility - Cover Story |
| | However, given the conciliar teaching on collegiality, the exercise of infallibility by the college of bishops can be considered a logical extension of the teaching of Vatican I: if the pope on specific occasions can exercise infallibility, then the college of bishops in communion with the pope can under specific conditions also exercise infallibility. | | | The Latin periphrastic is important, insofar as Vatican I did not restrict the exercise of infallibility to matters of faith (credenda), but allowed the possibility that infallibility might extend to "doctrine that must be held" (tenenda), even though that teaching is not, strictly speaking, a matter of divine revelation. | | | Pastor aeternus specified: "doctrine concerning faith or morals that must be held by the universal church." This answer implicitly distinguished "doctrine that must be held" (doctrina tenenda) from "doctrine that must be believed" (doctrina credenda). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n2_v123/ai_17958345
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| | Rather, as the supreme teacher of the universal Church, as one in whom the charism of the infallibility of the Church herself is present, he is expounding or defending a doctrine of the Catholic faith.4 | | | In stating, therefore, that the doctrine of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis belongs to the deposit of faith, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith rightly asserts that the doctrine is infallible. | | | To establish the infallibility of the text the following properties should be evident: the very form of the words ought to stand out with solemnity which normally occurs when a doctrine is defined by the words "we believe," "we define," "we anathematize" and the like. |
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http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Homiletic/12-96/1/1.html
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| | Infallibility |
| | The dilemma in which the Reformed Church finds itself, therefore, is that to make the infallibility of holy scripture effective it would have to concede a form of infallibility to the Church, but to do this would be to destroy the justification for its secession in the Middle Ages from the Catholic Church. | | | However, to justify their break with the medieval magisterium, they had to wrench infallibility out of its lodging in the flesh and blood of the Church and transpose it to the written word of holy scripture. | | | And so the concept of infallible Truth, accessible to those who are on the side of the truth, is inextricably bound up with the living Body, the Church, born out of the side of Christ on the Cross. |
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http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Faith/1998-03-04/infallibility.html
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | Eastern Orthodox agree with Evangelicals on the infallibility of the Scriptures and with us extend infallibility also to the Church. | | | Ironically, the Protestant propensity to limit infallibility to the Scriptures alone cannot be supported from Scripture. | | | Only after having laid out this foundational case for the doctrine of papal infallibility is it reasonable to move on to address the objections quoted at the beginning of this article. |
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http://www.chnetwork.org/journals/authority/authority_8.htm
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | As Vatican II said, it is a charism the Pope "enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals. | | | This inability of the Church to teach error is infallibility; it is a negative protection. | | | The first thing they would have to perceive (after being told the subject concerns the absence of error, not of sin) is that infallibility belongs to the body of bishops as a whole, when, in moral unity, they teach a doctrine as true. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~m-kollar/Thoughts/others/a_10.htm
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| | Infallibility |
| | This infallibility, though, is a gift that is expressed in very specific ways, limited by Sacred Deposit of Faith -- Tradition, Scripture, and the unanimous writings of the early Fathers. | | | In this document, the only parts which would be infallible would be the lines "Jesus Christ is God" and "women may not be ordained to the priesthood" because these have always been taught. | | | They are the ones who root for the ordination of women, the eradication of the Christian view of homosexuality, etc. These are the well-organized, well-funded loudmouth "Catholics" who eat away at the Church's teachings and have become well-entrenched in various dioceses. |
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http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/papolatry.html
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| | EIPS - The Infallibility of the Pope |
| | This infallibility is a Romish point of faith. | | | To err is human; to be infallible is to be Divine. | | | I shall prove that this claimed infallibility is against Scripture, reason, and history. |
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http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=infallibility3
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| | Papal infallibility rests on three basic arguments: from Tradition (or history); from Scripture; and from ecclesiology (the logic of the Church's situation). | | | The consequence of this limitation on the Church's divinely-given authority to ordain is that women cannot be priests. | | | Some have said that the statement never mentions "supreme authority" or "infallibility", or that there is no doctrine "positively defined", or that "this is not a matter of dogma and so not covered by infallibility." Such assertions show an inadequate understanding of the nature of infallibility, and of the process by which doctrine becomes dogma. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/ORDIN.TXT
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| | The council did not claim infallibility in their deliberations, but moved from the dictates of enlightened judgment and with the dignity of a church established by the divine will.”—Story of Redemption, 308. | | | They were not infallible but, in the act of writing out the messages given them of God, they were guided by the Holy Spirit to produce infallible writings. | | | It was never a church or people who are infallible; it is only God and His Written Word. |
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http://www.sdadefend.com/Infalibility.htm
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| | A Primer on Infallibility |
| | The Church, naturally, is infallible only in those matters that pertain to her mission of conducting souls to heaven: faith and morals. | | | By this term is meant the day-to-day teaching of the Pope and of the bishops in union with him. | | | The true Church of Christ is to be found among those clergy and laity who adhere to the traditional Mass, liturgy, law, and teachings of the Catholic Church as they existed before the Modernist changes of Vatican Council II. |
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| | Infallibility in Catholicism. |
| | The net effect is that all theology produced by Catholic bishops, and anything guessed at by their supporters, is supposed to be infallible. | | | (The pope is also a bishop.) Their combined infallibility is called "magisterium," defined as teaching authority. | | | Every interpretation of words will be different, particularly in the muddle of theology. |
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http://nov55.com/rel/inf.html
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| | Clear Ideas On the Pope’s Infallible Magisterium |
| | Because it declared itself to be non-dogmatic, the charism of infallibility cannot be claimed for the last Council, except insofar as it was re-iterating traditional teaching. | | | By a strange reversal, while the personal infallibility of the pope in a solemn judgment, so long disputed, was definitely placed beyond all controversy, it is the Ordinary Magisterium of the Roman Church which seems to have been lost sight of. | | | The Christian is required to give the assent of faith to all the doctrinal and moral truths defined by the Church's Magisterium. |
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http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/SiSiNoNo/2002_January/Popes_Infallible_Magisterium.htm
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| | Reply to Salmon's Infallibility -- Anglican George Salmon anti-Catholic book on Papacy |
| | The classic refutation of papal infallibility was written by George Salmon, The Infallibility of the Church (1914). | | | The same may be true of Christianity, with special reference to the papal primacy and infallibility which Salmon denounces as corruptions of the original deposit of faith. | | | There is no absurdity and no sophistry in maintaining that Christianity is by definition "papal," just as man is by definition rational, even if the operation and recognition of the papal prerogatives in the fourth century were as hard to discern as the rationality of the human baby, or the wings of a caterpillar. |
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| | Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 1 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 3 ARTICLE 9 PARAGRAPH 4 |
| | The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, they exercise the supreme Magisterium," above all in an Ecumenical Council. | | | To fulfill this service, Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. | | | 889 In order to preserve the Church in the purity of the faith handed on by the apostles, Christ who is the Truth willed to confer on her a share in his own infallibility. |
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| | Martin Luther the Super-Pope, de facto Infallibility, & Protestant Tradition |
| | But basically he claimed that people should agree with him because what he said was faithful to Holy Scripture and to the analogy of faith. | | | Another way to look at this is to say that no Christian gets their doctrine "pure" and unfiltered, straight from the Bible (and the Holy Spirit). | | | Catholics who make this argument are told that Protestants don't believe in infallibility (as if we didn't know that already). |
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| | Brian Tierney: Inveterate Enemy of Papal <Tyranny> & Infallibility |
| | If the popes have always been infallible in any meaningful sense of the word—if their official pronouncements as heads of the church on matters of faith and morals have always been unerring and so irreformable - then all kinds of dubious consequences ensue. | | | I am surprised that an Eastern Orthodox person would commend the arguments of Tierney, since Tierney obviously is against not just PAPAL infallibility, but ALL infallibility, including the infallibility of Ecumenical Councils and the infallibility of the Church herself, both of which doctrines are believed in by the Eastern Orthodox. | | | Liberal historians like Tierney need to make the case from authoritative declarations of the Church that papal infallibility is heretical or that conciliarism is true, or that it is a free-for-all and the Church has been silent on the matter. |
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| | Catholic Pages Directory: » The Church » The Pope » PAPAL INFALLIBILITY |
| | Infallibility by Ronald Walls (from Catholic Faith, March/April 1998) | | | William Most demonstrates that although there is a hierarchy of truths in the faith, it is another hierarchy that determines what we must believe: the Magisterium. | | | Catholic Pages Directory: » The Church » The Pope » PAPAL INFALLIBILITY |
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| | That is, after all, the definition of infallibility. | | | To me, "infallibility" means that if you don't like the church, then tough- you can leave. | | | The adherents to the Roman Catholic faith, to continue in good standing, must accept one of the cornerstones of that faith, and so accept absolute "Papal Infallibility", when invoked. |
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| | Decrees of the First Vatican Council |
| | Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable. | | | that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. | | | In fact, in the three following sessions, there was discussion and approval of only two constitutions: Dogmatic Constitution On The Catholic Faith and First Dogmatic Constitution on the church of Christ, the latter dealing with the primacy and infallibility of the bishop of Rome. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Was Peter the First Pope? |
| | However, he certainly did not hold the views attributed to him in the forgery and later came to strongly support the infallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra on faith or morals. | | | Smith again returns to the falsified statement from Bishop Strossmayer, this time referring to instances of multiple antipopes claiming to be the validly elected Pope. | | | There can be no question Jesus intended for his Church to always be guided in truth. |
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| | Eternal Wars RE:SGTObvious Manifesto 2, Defnitions, and Infallibility StrategyPage.com |
| | As an atheist and a realist, I have to tell you that there is considerably more acceptable evidence that there is a possibility that there is a God than there is that I would vote for Hillary, even under pain of death. | | | Rosecroix 9/3/2003 7:09:07 AM RE:SGTObvious Manifesto 2, Defnitions, and Infallibility | | | chemist 5/24/2004 5:48:41 AM RE:SGTObvious Manifesto 2, Defnitions, and Infallibility |
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| | CNS STORY: Pontificating with priests: Marx, vocations and papal infallibility |
| | His discourse in late July to 140 priests and religious in northern Italy offered insights into a pontiff the church and the world are still getting to know. | | | Pontificating with priests: Marx, vocations and papal infallibility | | | CNS STORY: Pontificating with priests: Marx, vocations and papal infallibility |
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| | Papacy & Infallibility Apologetics Index Page |
| | The Church and Infallibility: A Reply to Anglican Polemicist George Salmon | | | The Holy Spirit Has Spoken Through the Cardinals: Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger): My Own Thoughts on the Current "Mind of the Church" | | | Dialogue: Is the Vatican I Proclamation of Papal Infallibility Non-Negotiable and Orthodox or "Radical Papal Tyranny" and the Triumph of Ultramontanism? |
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