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| | Papal infallibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In Catholic theology, papal infallibility is one of the channels of the Infallibility of the Church. | | | In Roman Catholic theology, Papal infallibility is the dogma that the Pope is preserved from error when he solemnly promulgates, or declares, to the Church a decision on faith or morals. | | | The dissenters, holding the General Councils of the Church infallible, were unwilling to accept the dogma of Papal Infallibility. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infallibility |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | THE CROSS OF PAPAL INFALLIBILITY - The Life and Death of NSSM 200 - Chapter 11 |
| | Infallibility was first attributed to the pope in 1279 by a Franciscan priest. | | | The dogma of infallibility is important because it shields the entire doctrinal structure of the Catholic Church from criticism. | | | The proponents of the doctrine of papal infallibility were convinced that this doctrine would lead to control of the world press on matters vital to papal authority. |
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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& 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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| | Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Myth of Papal Infallibility |
| | Papal infallibility is the idea that the pope is infallible, that is, he is unable to err in teaching revealed truth. | | | Even the limited definition of papal infallibility to ex-cathedra [a] pronouncements on faith and morals can be shown to be inconsistent with the historical evidence. | | | Many lay Catholics are under the impression that this is an old doctrine of the church which must be pretty well proven for their church to use as one of the main tenets of their faith. |
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | The gift of papal infallibility was essential to the Church, not the definition of the gift. | | | The doctrine is one that developed as the Church got a clearer understanding of the teaching authority of the bishops and the primacy of the Pope. | | | Remember that in order for a pope to exercise the charism of infallibility, he must offically be defining a doctrine relating to faith or morals—the pope is not infallible when it comes to science or any other field of thought, furthermore, the other two conditions to pronounce an infallible doctrine were not present. |
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http://www.catholicfaithandreason.org/papal_infallibility.htm
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| | Papal infallibility doctrine - Ex cathedra teaching - Ordinary Magisterium |
| | The Pope is infallible, not only in the whole matter of revealed truths; he is also indirectly infallible in all truths which, though not revealed, are so intimately connected with revealed truths, that the deposit of faith and morals cannot be guarded, explained, and defended without an infallible discernment of such not revealed truths. | | | By matters of faith and morals is meant the whole revelation of the truths of faith; or the whole way of salvation through faith; or the whole supernatural order, with all that is essential to the sanctification and salvation of man through Jesus Christ. | | | Indeed, if the issues and facts had not been made absolutely clear, the adversaries of infallibility and the enemies of the Church would certainly have published abroad all the supposedly false teachings of the previous popes and used this as a means of making the Church appear ridiculous. |
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| | Infallibility |
| | According to Roman Catholic doctrine, popes and Catholic church councils are infallible. | | | It says that "infallible" as used by the Roman Catholic Church means "incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals". | | | Therefore, the doctrine of infallibility is not valid. |
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http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Infallibility.html
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| | Fallibility Papal Infallibility |
| | History proves that the doctrines of the papacy and papal infallibility are not blessings, but are instead awful curses. | | | If any in their sluggishness are disposed to think that a perpetual body of infallible teachers would be a blessing, all must admit that the assumption of infallibility by the ignorant, the erring, and the wicked, must be an evil inconceivably great. | | | While the Catholic Church tries to avoid responsibility for papal errors by defining papal infallibility in a vague way, it demands obedience to the Pope at all times, as though every word coming from his mouth is infallible. |
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| | Catholics affirm de fide, as an unchangeable part of their faith, the infallible teaching authority of the Roman church as manifested in the present bishop of Rome (the pope). | | | But to claim, as Catholics do, that God's infallible unveiling in the Bible needs further infallible unveiling by God is to say that it was not unveiled properly to begin with. | | | Protestants accept the infallibility of Scripture but deny that any human being or institution is the infallible interpreter of Scripture. |
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| | Roman Catholic Papal Infallibility |
| | The Jesuits and a portion of the Romish Divines, however, contend for the Infallibility of the Pope. | | | It was not without substantial ground that the Church of Rome held and still holds that "ignorance is the mother of devotion," such devotion as that of the Popedorn. | | | It claims for Pope Pius IX and his successors entire infallibility. |
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| | And it is a less difficulty that the Papal supremacy was not formally acknowledged in the second century, than that there was no formal acknowledgment on the part of the Church of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity till the fourth. | | | We do defend the infallibility of the person of the Roman Pontiff, not as an individual person but as the person of the Roman Pontiff or a public person, that is, as head of the Church in his relation to the Church Universal. | | | The papacy, and papal infallibility, have indeed been in existence from the very earliest days of the Church, starting with the Apostle Peter, and what he and other Christians believed about his leadership and jurisdiction. |
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| | How to Argue for Papal Infallibility (This Rock: February 2002) |
| | By mentioning this, it is useful to draw a parallel between the inspiration of Scripture and the infallibility of the Church. | | | The fault is not in the Scriptures but in the desire to part with its authoritative interpreter—the Church. | | | It is not that the Church knows all things, but that by the will of God, his Church will always be preserved from error, enabling her to pass on the purity of the apostles’ teaching. |
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| | PAPAL INFALLIBILITY |
| | "The infallibility, however, with which the divine redeemer wished to endow his Church in defining doctrine pertaining to faith and morals, is co-extensive with the deposit of revelation, which must be religiously guarded and loyally and courageously expounded. | | | Furthermore, Catholics who truly get saved show they recognize the serious implications of papal infallibility by exiting from this type of religious system to a local Protestant congregation that declares the true gospel as found in the Bible. | | | I unhesitatingly accept and profess all the doctrines (especially those concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching authority) handed down, defined, and explained by the sacred canons and ecumenical councils and especially those of this most holy Council of Trent (and by the ecumenical Vatican Council). |
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| | The Catholic Magisterium |
| | Infallibility does not mean that the pope knows more about the Catholic religion and the Bible than anyone else. | | | Of course, papal infallibility is but one mode of the Church's Magisterium. | | | Infallibility belongs to persons; by extension, we apply the word "infallible" to the doctrines they enunciate. |
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | The evidence that papal infallibility is part of the Christian Faith comes from three sources. | | | While the the First Vatican Council defined papal infallibility in 1870, you must understand that the date on which a doctrine is officially defined is not the date on which it becomes true. | | | It's just that different aspects of the Faith are challenged at different periods of history, and when a challenge occurs or a serious concern or question arises, then the Church will settle the difficulty by formally stating what the truth of the matter is -- to end the confusion. |
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | The infallibility doctrine was cause for 55 bishops to leave Vatican I in protest. | | | The teaching magesterium of the Roman Catholic church (itself infallible when speaking officially on faith and moral matters) did not come up with this teaching until 1870 at Vatican I. Oddly, there is no infallible test for infallibility... | | | Officially, the pope is only said to be infallible when he speaks ex cathedra or "officially" as the supreme authority on faith and morals to the world. |
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| | The Fellowship Hall :: View topic - Papal infallibility |
| | That is actually a good example of how the papal infallibility works - the Magisterium (bishops) in union with the Bishop of Rome reviews what Scripture and tradition teach and together resolve disputes of doctrinal issues with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. | | | I prefer to accept the plain Bible teaching that the church is founded on the sinless, Divine Son of God with no debate about what His "infallibility" means. | | | It is a proven fact that Pope Honorius, in a number of letters written to Sergius I, Patriarch of constantinopole (and several other people) officially embraced the heresy of monothelitism (the belief that Christ only had one will, the Divine one). |
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| | Papal Infallibility Becomes Dogma |
| | A: This is a Protestant invention; it is no article of the Catholic faith; no decision of his can oblige, under pain of heresy, unless it be received and enforced by the teaching body; that is, by the bishops of the Church. | | | Cardinal Guidi, Archbishop of Bologna, in a speech before the Council said that, while accepting infallibility, he urged the Pope to take the counsel of his bishops before issuing decisions as this is the tradition of the Church. | | | Thus lacking a moral unanimity or even a clear two-thirds majority, Papal Infallibility was now elevated as an article of faith equal to the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. |
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http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/papaldogma.aspx
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | The current Roman Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of Papal infallibility, which states that the bishop or Pope of the Roman catholic church should be the head of the entire church because he and he alone inherited the authority of St. Peter. | | | On account of Rome being the capital of the empire, the faithful from all parts, representing every Church, are obliged to resort to Rome, and there to come together; so that the apostolic tradition of "the gathering together out of all the Churches" will be preserved. | | | Irenaeus ~180 AD Irenaeus in his Against Heresies 3.3 states that every church should agree with the church of Rome because it was founded by both Peter and Paul. |
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | Neither submission to the Pope nor belief in papal infallibility imparts salvation or eternal life. | | | Here are three of the "infallible" declarations which exercised the "ex cathedra" and were placed alongside the authority of the Bible: | | | The epistle to the Colossians was written about A.D. 64, during the very time that Peter was supposed to be Pope (A.D. 29-67), yet Paul makes no mention of Peter as head of the church at Rome (Colossians 4:7-11). |
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| | Brian Tierney: Inveterate Enemy of Papal <Tyranny> & Infallibility |
| | He denied the "Spirituals'" contention that their rule and style of poverty was equal to the Gospel and he pointed out that papal approval of a religious order and its rule was a matter of Church legislation, not of faith or morals. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | Papal Infallibility |
| | If then you proclaim the infallibility of the actual pope, you must either prove, that which is impossible - that the popes never contradicted each other - or else you must declare that the Holy Spirit has revealed to you that the infallibility of the papacy only dates from 1870. | | | Save the church from the shipwreck which threatens her, asking from the holy Scriptures alone for the rule of faith which we ought to believe and to profess. | | | Now, unless you hold that the church of the apostles was heretical (which none of us would either desire or dare to say), we are obliged to confess that the church has never been more beautiful, more pure, or more holy, than in the days when there was no pope. |
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| | WHY THE POPE CAN'T CHANGE THE CHURCH'S POSITION ON BIRTH CONTROL by Stephen D. Mumford DrPH |
| | I am convinced that the doctrine of infallibility is in a certain sense the key to the certainty with which the faith is confessed and proclaimed, as well as to the life and conduct of the faithful. | | | In these two texts, the pope took the position that a change on the birth control issue would destroy the principle of papal infallibility and that infallibility was the fundamental principle of the Church upon which all else rests and, thus, must be protected at all costs. | | | He is convinced that if he changes the Church's position on birth control and destroys the principle of infallibility, self-destruction will be very swift. |
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| | An Historical and Scriptural Analysis of Papal Infallibility |
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