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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.
		Papal infallibility does not signify that the Pope is divinely inspired or that he is specially exempt from liability to sin.
		Nearly all Catholic theologians agree that both Pope Pius IX's 1854 definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and Pope Pius XII's 1950 definition of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary are instances of papal infallibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papal_infallibility (2333 words)

	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 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.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07790a.htm (7343 words)

	JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Two Instances Of Papal Infallibility?
		Infallibility has been invoked by popes only twice: by Pius IX, in defining the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin in 1854 (16 years before papal infallibility itself was actually defined at Vatican I), and by Pius XII, in defining the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in 1950.
		It is certainly true that papal infallibility is widely misunderstood, but I regret to say that this statement falls into a common misunderstanding of it: namely, the idea that it has only been exercised twice.
		Ratzinger's response to the dubium on OS suggests that he and JP2 carefully crafted the language of OS, and of EV too, both to stress the infallibility of the ordinary magisterium and to indicate thereby that infallible papal acts of teaching normally need not be definitions of the traditional sort.
	www.jimmyakin.org /2004/06/two_instances_o.html (1970 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		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), it does not have the possibility of error.
		Infallible statements in the former category are said to exercise the "Universal" or "Constant" Magisterium; infallible statements in the latter category are said to exercise the "Extraordinary" or "Solemn" Magisterium.
		Some commentators regard the dogmatic definition of Papal Infallibility itself in 1870, and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in 1854, to be other recent examples of infallible pronouncements.
	www.thenazareneway.com /papal_infallibility.htm (1670 words)

	Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Papal infallibility is one of the great differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
		To the mind of the general reader, mention of the Vatican Council will usually recall two facts: that it was the occasion of the definition of the doctrine popularly called Papal Infallibility, and that many of the bishops present were opposed to the definition.
		At the First Vatican Council he was one of the most notable opponents of papal infallibility, and distinguished himself as a speaker.
	www.zpub.com /un/pope/infal.html (495 words)

	Papal infallibility doctrine - Ex cathedra teaching - Ordinary Magisterium
		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.
		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.
		An important consequence of the declaration on infallibility at Vatican I was that the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX was clearly declared to fall within the realm of the Ordinary Magisterium.
	www.wandea.org.pl /papal-infallibility.htm (3110 words)

	Is papal infallibility Biblical?
		According to the Roman Catholic Church, this infallibility of the Pope, when speaking ex cathedra, is part of the Roman Catholic Church’s Magisterium, or the “Teaching authority of the Church” which God gave to the “mother Church” to guide her infallibly.
		This “Teaching authority of the Church” is made up of the Pope’s infallible teaching ability, the infallible teaching ability of church councils assembled under the authority of the Pope, and the “ordinary” Magisterium of the bishops.
		The Roman Catholic Church sees this “teaching authority of the church,” with its infallible ability to identify which books constitute Scripture and then to infallibly interpret Scripture, as being inseparably linked with the authority of Scripture and states that this teaching authority of the church is a servant of Scripture.
	www.gotquestions.org /papal-infallibility.html (1031 words)

	EIPS - Papal Infallibility
		Infallibility is a dogma at which the Protestant world has long ceased to look with gravity.
		The claim to infallibility, however, notwithstanding its superlative absurdity, was necessary to the completion of the Papal system, which would otherwise have been wanting in the most material feature of its impiety, while all the other parts would have lacked coherence.
		No matter; Infallibility was found to be necessary to sustain the claims of the Popedom, and infallibility was arrogated accordingly.
	www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?ArtKey=pinfallible (1585 words)

	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.
		Thus the age which saw the promulgation of the formal decree of papal infallibility (1870) has seen the most vital decline that has ever taken place in the total life and power of the church.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/infallible.html (1177 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)

	Pontifications » Blog Archive » Newman on Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Papal infallibility is presented as something essential to the Church, without which the average Christian cannot be sure in his faith.
		So understood, the purpose of infallibility (papal or otherwise) is to safeguard the truth; infallibility is not a substitute for truth and should not be permitted to obscure the question of truth.
		It is natural that the issue of infallibility would become important in the context of such questions; but that issue does not itself account for that context, and the dogma of papal infallibility neither does nor was intended to address such questions.
	catholica.pontifications.net /?p=1062 (15864 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		The Catholic Church’s teaching on papal infallibility is one which is generally misunderstood by those outside the Church.
		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.
	www.catholic.com /library/Papal_Infallibility.asp (2112 words)

	Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The infallibility of the Pope is certainly a doctrine that has developed, but it is not one that sprang out of nowhere.
		For them papal infallibility seems a muddle because their idea of what it covers is muddled.
		Infallibility is not a substitute for papal homework.
	home.comcast.net /~m-kollar/Thoughts/others/a_10.htm (1601 words)

	papal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Thus, the attempt to undermine papal infallibility by means of this scriptural passage fails due to misunderstanding of the Catholic claims for the pope's divinely-appointed charism (in other words, it is a "straw man" argument).
	www.olph.com /papal.htm (6898 words)

	Papal Infallibility in Providentissimus Deus
		Therefore, the third criterion for an infallible papal statement is met by these several definitive proclamations affirming the infallibility of Scripture in its entirety, and condemning any opinion that would limit infallibility to faith and morals.
		Subsequent papal statements would be effected by additional criteria, even ones made by subsequent Popes, until one Pope or another decides to dispense with the additional criteria, reverting to the sole use of the five essential criteria, or until one Pope or another changes or adds to the additional criteria.
		The teaching of Pope Leo XIII on the infallibility of Sacred Scripture is itself an infallible teaching under the doctrine of papal infallibility, which was taught explicitly by the First Vatican Council prior to the publication of Providentissimus Deus.
	www.catholicplanet.com /articles/article130.htm (2399 words)

	Infallibility
		Infallibility applies to all Roman Catholic popes and church councils: past, present, and future.
		It says that "infallible" as used by the Roman Catholic Church means "incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals".
		The contradiction of "infallible" doctrines has caused some very conservative Catholics to believe that John Paul II is not a valid pope, and the Second Vatican Council was not a valid council.
	www.catholicconcerns.com /Infallibility.html (1469 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		Papal infallibility is one of the major differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
		To the Roman Catholic, "ex cathedra" (Latin for 'from the seat') statements are as infallible as the Bible.
		Papal infallibility considers Peter to be the first Pope of Rome, with every Pope his successor.
	www.allaboutreligion.org /papal-infallibility-faq.htm (455 words)

	Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The [Papal] Council will vindicate its authority over the world and prove its right, founded on a divine commission, to enter most intimately into all the spiritual concerns of the world, to supervise the acts of the king, the diplomatist, the philosopher, and the general - - to circumscribe the limits of their speculative inquiries.
		to subjugate human reason to the yoke of faith - - to extinguish liberals, rationalists, and deists by one stroke of her infallibility.
		It was to men of 'enlightened opinion' that the Council's work seemed most distasteful." (Norman 80.) Among those who abhorred the challenge to the progress of the liberal state was none other than the leader of the Liberal party, and Prime Minister when the principle of Papal Infallibility was announced, Gladstone himself.
	www.victorianweb.org /religion/Papal_Infallibility.html (360 words)

	The Fallibility of Papal Infallibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		To avoid the implications of papal errors such as Liberius' support of Arianism and Honorius' support of Monothelitism, Catholics will argue that papal infallibility is defined so narrowly that those papal errors aren't part of that definition.
		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.
	members.aol.com /jasonte/bullunam.htm (4615 words)

	Papal Infallibility Becomes Dogma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Papal Bull almost brought France to the brink of schism 3 and the Austrian Emperor forbade the Bull Unigenitus in his territories.4 This Bull sparked a debate as to the limits of papal authority.
		At the First Vatican Council the approval of the passing of Papal Infallibility was almost guaranteed from the beginning.
		The second reason why the doctrine of Papal Infallibility was guaranteed to pass was the deep personal involvement of Pius IX himself and the intimidating coercive tactics he used.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /inquirers/papaldogma.aspx (2320 words)

	Christian Unity and the Role of Authority:
		The Catholic would claim that the infallibility of the Council is contingent upon the ratification of the decrees by the Bishop of Rome as Ecumenical (or binding on the entire church).
		However, as infallibility is an agreed upon property of the universal church, it is necessary to take into account the precise claims made by the Catholic Church with regards to the infallibility of the pope.
		Regarding the Definition of Papal Infallibility it should noted that often it is misunderstood as requiring the Pope to be either seated on the Papal Throne when teaching or that the Pope explicitly cite the fact that he is invoking infallibility or further that the Pope has to be issuing a dogmatic or doctrinal definition.
	matt1618.freeyellow.com /unity8.html (6566 words)

	Papal Infallibility
		The Pope has the humility enough to admit his infallibility when he does exercise his supreme office as teacher of all the faithful is due, not to himself, but to that very Holy Spirit.
		The Pope is the lawful successor of St. Peter, and therefore, inherits that privilege of St. Peter according to the will of Christ who declared that the Church would last till the end of the world with the constitutional powers He gave it.
		EX CATHEDRA means the Pope must speak, where it is a question of excreting his infallibility, not as a private theologian, but is virtue of his office as supreme Head of the whole Church on earth giving a decision for all the members of the Church on a matter of Faith and Morals.
	members.aol.com /KCC1TIM/infall.html (983 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 believe in papal infallibility is to believe ONLY Roman Catholics can be saved, for they alone are in submission to the Pope.
		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.
	www.evangelicaloutreach.org /papal.htm (1192 words)

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