papal infallibility

Examples

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• The doctrine of papal infallibility asserts that the pope cannot err when declaring teachings on faith.

• The Vatican II position in no way contradicts the position on papal infallibility found in the Vatican I documents.

  Academic text (2013)

• Just a quick point about papal infallibility.

  Blog text (28)

• When I noted that papal infallibility was defined by that Council, Father said, "Oh that."

  Blog text (14)

• Catholicism, of course, is not any better off with its doctrine of papal infallibility.

  Academic text (2015)

• A believer in the doctrine of papal infallibility, he had a look of incredulity when I told him about the behavior of Alexander the Sixth.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Some advisers to Pope Paul VI persuaded him not to accept the findings of the commission because they feared it would call into question the relatively new dogma of papal infallibility.

  Blog text (19)

• In 1663, the Parliament of Paris requested that the Faculty censure a student who had defended papal infallibility in one of his theses.

  Academic text (1992)

• I do not see how such a declaration, which would be an act of ordinary papal magisterium concerning a question of fact, can be said to meet the conditions laid down by Vatican I for an exercise of papal infallibility.

  Academic text (1997)

• The plan soon collapsed because the Anglo-Catholics were unwilling to accept the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility and the proposal of conditional reordination.

  Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

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infallibilism

vspapal infallibility

• Specialized

9.9

A belief that a person or group, for example the Pope, cannot be wrong about certain religious teachings

applies narrowly to official statements by the pope within the Roman Catholic Church

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