[AlaskaErik]

Now,now. This is the man, according to our Catholic brethren, God chose to lead his church. This man also has the ability to interpret scripture for the unwashed masses don’t you know

And don't they have thing about papal infallibility?

[Joshua]

Yeah, that infallibility thing. Well this is from a Catholic site explaining it to us heathen

[Joshua]

Yeah, that infallibility thing. Well this is from a Catholic site explaining it to us heathen.

Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:17–19; John 21:15–17). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope “enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals. Therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter.”