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To: Mariner

“The Church doctrine, the Catechism says that the Pope is Infallible.”

Papal Infallibility is a limited thing. It does not make anyone a god nor does believing in it make someone into a god. Papal Infallibility only happens because of the Holy Spirit.

“Who, but God, is infallible?”

You are. I am. Just not all the time. If you ever said, “Trump is going to win in 2016!” that was an infallibly true statement was it not?

It is clear that the issue is not papal infallibility but your apparent misunderstanding of it.


21 posted on 11/26/2016 7:09:37 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998; Mariner

Perhaps the point that Mariner meant to make is that, years ago, some catechism students were taught that the Pope is the divinely-inspired representative of Christ on earth, infallible as is The Lord. I was taught, additionally, not to read the scriptures because my intellect was too puny to comprehend those complex works. It is simply a theoretical conflict which can be rectified with powerful and irrefutable reasoning. I don’t mean to imply that I’m capable of comprehension of such reasoning. It’s merely a rather disconcerting episode of cognitive dissonance among those of us who took our education seriously.


26 posted on 11/26/2016 8:18:07 AM PST by Silentgypsy
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To: vladimir998

Not capable of error.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/infallible

Tell this retired alter boy how this Pope meets any of the definitions of infallible.


29 posted on 11/26/2016 9:25:00 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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