OK. You define it any way you want--it's useless to quote authorities like the Council's own documents, or Ratzinger, or whoever.
Funny. You can't abide the Trads who are wrong--and you can't abide the folks, like me, who simply take the Council at its own word.
Where are you going with this??
Infallibility In general, exemption or immunity from liability to error or failure; in particular in theological usage, the supernatural prerogative by which the Church of Christ is, by a special Divine assistance, preserved from liability to error in her definitive dogmatic teaching regarding matters of faith and morals. In this article the ubject will be treated under the following heads:
I. True Meaning of Infallibility
II. Proof of the Church's Infallibility
III. Organs of Infallibility
Ecumenical Councils
The Pope
Their Mutual Relations
IV. Scope and Object of Infallibility
<> That is from the Catholic Encyclopedia. Itis not my definition. ALL Ecumenical Councils ARE Infallible. Period. <>
Where are you going with this?? CG: Yes, God gave us all a heart to love Him. But he also gave us a mind to know Him.
You don't want to think. You don't want others to think. You demand blind obedience, not with full assent of the will, but with obliteration of the will. That is not Catholic; that is Islamic.