A contemporary painting (1870) of the First Vatican Council, at which the doctrine of papal infallibility was declared (Wikimedia Commons) Papal infallibility, solemnly defined by the First Vatican ...
On Dec. 8 the Catholic Church celebrates the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception — a paramount feast in the Church’s liturgical calendar and one that indirectly touches on a regularly misunderstood ...
Popes can err if they are not making proclamations in the limited circumstances in which we believe papal infallibility applies to them, per the 1870 dogma. The pope is not some kind of inspired ...
Since the First Vatican Council of 1870, it has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals, is infallible. In the most ...
Pope Benedict XVI is seated in the cathedra during the Liturgy of the Word during Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York April. 19, 2008. (CNS photo/Gary Hershorn, Reuters) WASHINGTON-- “No ...
Editor's note: Fr. Hans Küng, the Swiss theologian, says that he has received a letter from Pope Francis that responds "to my request to give room to a free discussion on the dogma of infallibility." ...
The origin and history of the concept of papal infallibility, which originates as far back as 519 CE. Though papal infallibility was only set in stone in 1870, the idea had been part of church history ...
The origin and history of the concept of papal infallibility, which originates as far back as 519 CE. Though papal infallibility was only set in stone in 1870, the idea had been part of church history ...
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