So, I don’t understand the doctrine of infallibility! Perhaps you are correct since I do not understand how a marriage that lasted for years and produced children can suddenly with the church’s blessing be annulled. Annulment and infallibility are both fantasies to me. They exist only in the mind of the beholder.
Again, you’re failing to understand Catholic doctrine. There is a difference between a civil annulment and a Church annulment. The Church is saying that a marriage did not exist according to how it understands Scripture. That has nothing to do with the civil contract of marriage.
Please refrain from commenting about Catholic doctrine based on non-Catholic misunderstandings.
I really doubt that you want to understand them. I you do, freepmail me privately. I teach courses on these issues.
But if you really aren’t all that interested in understanding these things, your time is probably better spent on other threads.
When the Pope speaks *AS* the Pope, ‘Ex Cathedra’ his opinion is considered final and absolute WITH REGARDS TO CHURCH DOCTRINE.
Much like the supreme court. The justices are just people, and the Chief Justice, speaking at a meeting or class is just another jurist with an opinion- a learned one but just one person's opinion; but their pronouncements on the specific subject at hand, within the context, the same jurist writing the majority opinion, now their words are final and without further appeal.