[Mrs. Don-o]

But why would you want to assert that the Pope even has the authority or power to change doctrine? That's papolatry: it's the line taken by Marx, Forte and Casper: that the pope *can* change the doctrine.

But he can't. All he can do, if he's against a doctrine, is to neglect it, obfuscate it, undermine it, or violate it. But he can't change it. Because he hasn't the authority.

[ebb tide]

You apparently understand neither the severe limitations where papal infallibility is in effect nor the broad definition of Catholic doctrine as described in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Finally, it is you, not I, who describes herself as a papist on her home page.