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then you are NOT Catholic - the infallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra is dogma - not negotiable - a deal breaker.

Lurking’

111 posted on 03/02/2008 4:54:14 PM PST by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)

To: LurkingSince'98

“then you are NOT Catholic”

You win the kewpie doll.

114 posted on 03/02/2008 5:16:15 PM PST by Grunthor (Of two evils, choose neither - Charles Spurgeon)

To: LurkingSince'98; Grunthor

And what if one does not believe that the pope is infallable?

Also, note the constraints on this infallibility: the pronouncements on Theological questions, ONLY when spoken with the EXPRESS statement that this is a statement from the Chair of Peter (not from Pope Benedict or Pope JP or any other Pope), THAT is considered infallible --> this was in effect a self-imposed constraint put on the Papacy: the Pope has to pray continuously to get the correct answer from God and it is meant only to settle dogmatic disputes: you can't have the Pope saying that the Red Sox would/should win.

153 posted on 03/03/2008 1:09:09 AM PST by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)

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