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	Infallibility - MSN Encarta
		Infallibility, in Christian theology, 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.
		Infallibility is not regarded by its adherents as something miraculous or as a kind of clairvoyance.
		Infallibility is therefore seen as a gift that is to be exercised with the utmost care in the service of the gospel.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567685/Infallibility.html (398 words)

	infallibility â“ FREE infallibility Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		infallibility, in Christian thought, exemption from the possibility of error, bestowed on the church as a teaching authority, as a gift of the Holy Spirit.
		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.
		Infallibility may be answer, but it may also be question.(on the infallibility of the Catholic church)(Column)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-infallib.html (1066 words)

	INFALLIBILITY - LoveToKnow Article on INFALLIBILITY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IN/INFALLIBILITY.htm (1926 words)

	Infallibility in Catholicism.
		Infallibility is being promoted as an essential part of Catholicism after nearly being abandoned a few decades ago.
		Christ's words can be figuratively said to be an infallible source of truth, because he used super-human communication to teach in relation to the objective realities which we can observe in life, and he had the authority and wisdom of God.
		Therefore, infallibility is a wrench thrown into the process of evaluation and improvement of understanding in minds.
	nov55.com /rel/inf.html (578 words)

	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.
		Papal infallibility does not mean the Pope is inspired to say exactly what God wants him to say, as the Biblical writers were, but rather, he is protected from saying something untrue, something that God would not want him to say.
	www.catholic-forum.com /members/catholictracts/tract29.html (1195 words)

	Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		The successor of Saint Peter is not infallible when he speaks merely as a private theologian, a simple priest, the Bishop of Rome, the Archbishop of the Roman province, the Primate of Italy, or the Patriarch of the West, all of which offices he holds.
		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.
	www.catholicism.org /pages/infal.htm (6336 words)

	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 only noteworthy objections against papal infallibility, as distinct from the infallibility of the Church at large, are based on certain historical instances in which it is alleged that certain popes in the ex cathedra exercise of their office have actually taught heresy and condemned as heretical what has afterwards turned out to be true.
		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.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/infallib.htm (8722 words)

	Infallibility
		The heart of infallibility is this: The power of divine grace (not the human strength of its members) cannot allow the Church as a whole to fall away from the truth of God.
		This is the infallibility which the Roman pontiff, the head of the college of bishops, enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith, he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals...
		Infallibility guarantees the truth of the meaning of a statement, not the particular formulation of the meaning.
	www.sjnohio.com /Infallibility.htm (2750 words)

	Newsletter
		Infallibility, and especially papal infallibility, is one of the most misunderstood doctrines of the Catholic Church.
		His challenge to infallibility, based on the slow pace of reform in the church after Vatican II, cited a litany of papal errors that supposedly demonstrated that "infallible statements" are impossible.
		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.
	moses.creighton.edu /CSRS/news/F96-2.html (1538 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		The infallibility of the pope is certainly a doctrine that has been more clearly understood over time, but is not one that was invented in 1870.
		Infallible papal pronouncements are few because they could not be made without merely endorsing earlier infallible pronouncements from other sources, namely ecumenical councils or the unanimous teaching of the Early Church Fathers.
		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.
	www.catholicfaithandreason.org /papal_infallibility.htm (3454 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		Infallibility does not adhere to the man, else he would be infallible in everything he says.
		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.
		The fact is that papal infallibility flows from a proper understanding of salvation history, is eminently defendable from Scripture, is expressed in the ongoing Tradition of the Church, and represents a tremendous gift that God has given to his people.
	www.chnetwork.org /journals/authority/authority_8.htm (2903 words)

	Commonweal: Infallibility I & II - papal infallibility - Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		At the beginning of the twentieth century, a few theologians argued that various papal decisions, such as the condemnation of modernism by Pius X in 1907, were tantamount to an exercise of infallibility; however, such attempts to extend the scope of infallibility beyond matters of revelation received comparatively little support among theologians.
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n2_v123/ai_17958345 (823 words)

	The Papacy - book 2, chapter 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.
		In that case the infallibility does not rest in a sort of equipoise between the two, according to the theory we are examining, but attaches exclusively to the pontiff.
		Now, in the Pope the infallibility is less diffused, and therefore, one should think, more accessible, than when lodged in councils; and yet Papists are as far as ever from being able to avail themselves practically of this infallibility for the settlement of their doubts and controversies.
	www.freepres.org /papacy/pap02-07.htm (5621 words)

	Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		The infallibility of the Pope is certainly a doctrine that has developed, but it is not one that sprang out of nowhere.
		Infallibility is not a substitute for papal homework.
	home.comcast.net /~m-kollar/Thoughts/others/a_10.htm (1601 words)

	A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes
		The infallibility question had now been placed before the bishops, and for the rest of the council this absorbed all their time.
		So loudly and so generally had the party that favoured infallibility cried out their extravagant, untheological, untrained ideas of the nature of the pope's prerogative, that--so the Minority feared--it was just not possible that, for generations, the true meaning of the definition would be understood.
		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)".'
	www.christusrex.org /www1/CDHN/coun21.html (10209 words)

	What is Infallibility?
		To demonstrate a contradiction with infallible teaching, any appeal to Scripture must be coupled with a good historical and literary exegesis of the text and that interpretation must be tied to other infallibly and solemnly defined doctrines.
		Infallibility is known through doctrinal decrees of Ecumenical Councils, and statements of the Pope that meet specific criteria indicating that he is defining a matter of faith and morals infallibly.
		Even where a particular sentence may not reference a past infallible and extraordinarily defined doctrine, the sentence flows logically from doctrines that are infallible and is contextualized in a heavily referenced paragraph making it nearly impossible to try to separate some non-infallible piece out of the Counciliar decrees of Vatican II.
	infallibility.blogspot.com (2354 words)

	Infallibility
		The continuation into history of the infallible proclamation of the truth revealed in the Word made flesh began with the apostolic preaching —we have records of this in the sermons to be found in the Acts of the Apostles.
		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.
		Another fact made plain by the document we have quoted is that infallibility ought to be seen as applying to the act of believing as well as to the operation of teaching.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/1998-03-04/infallibility.html (2921 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		The infallibility of the pope is not a doctrine that suddenly appeared in Church teaching; rather, it is a doctrine which was implicit in the early Church.
		Infallibility is not a substitute for theological study on the part of the pope.
		Of course, infallibility does not include a guarantee that any particular pope won’t "neglect" to teach the truth, or that he will be sinless, or that mere disciplinary decisions will be intelligently made.
	www.catholic.com /library/Papal_Infallibility.asp (2130 words)

	Infallibility
		Infallibility is simply 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.
		When the Pope teaches using his extraordinary infallible Magisterium, or when a Council dogmatically defines something and the Pope endorses that defintion, Catholics must believe what is taught de fide, as an article of faith.
		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.
	www.fisheaters.com /papolatry.html (1867 words)

	Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.kensmen.com /catholic/papolatry.html (1957 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt.
		The more erudite will add that their opposition was not to the doctrine itself, but to the policy of choosing this present moment to proclaim it--the definition, they would say, was held not "opportune."...
		The dissenters, holding the General Councils of the Church infallible, were unwilling to accept the dogma of Papal Infallibility.
	www.zpub.com /un/pope/infal.html (495 words)

	Reply to Salmon's Infallibility -- Anglican George Salmon anti-Catholic book on Papacy
		It seems that Infallibility is still recommended by their clergy to non-Catholics who have begun to wonder whether perhaps the Catholic claims are true, and it appears that the allegation is made that the book has never been answered.
		Salmon attacks the Church's infallibility in general, and the infallibility of the Pope in particular.
		His attack on Papal infallibility is on the whole a posteriori: this dogma can be shown not to have been an original constituent of the Christian revelation, and it is disproved by the fact that Popes have contradicted one another.
	www.bringyou.to /apologetics/num11.htm (3488 words)

	Clear Ideas On the Pope’s Infallible Magisterium
		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 infallible guarantee of divine assistance is not limited solely to the acts of the Solemn Magisterium; it also extends to the Ordinary Magisterium, although it does not cover and assure all the latter's acts in the same way" (Fr.Labourdette, O.P., Revue Thomiste 1950, p.38).
		To deny the existence of these facts in the name of an erroneous understanding of the Church's infallibility, and to deny it a priori, is to fly in the face of the demands of theology, of history, and of the most elementary common sense.
	www.sspxasia.com /Documents/SiSiNoNo/2002_January/Popes_Infallible_Magisterium.htm (5099 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infallibility
		that are assumed to be established before the question of infallibility arises.
		Infallibility must be carefully distinguished both from Inspiration and from Revelation.
		the doctrine of papal infallibility for special treatment.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07790a.htm (7735 words)

	Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Those concepts were infallible, and that which they wrote down was guided by the Holy Spirit so that it was the infallible, Written Word of God.
		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.
	www.sdadefend.com /Infalibility.htm (3105 words)

	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.
		To the Roman Catholic, "ex cathedra" (Latin for from the seat) statements are as infallible as 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).
	www.evangelicaloutreach.org /papal.htm (1192 words)

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